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Carlo Tognato

An accomplished Senior Analyst with 20 years of extensive experience spanning Latin America, Australia, the United States, and Europe, supported by interdisciplinary training in economics, political science, sociology, and international affairs. Currently Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University after two years as Research Fellow at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota and two years as Senior Policy Fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Before returning to the US in 2019, I have been for a decade Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Colombia in Bogota and have directed for four years the Center for Social Studies at the same university. I have spearheaded technical cooperation initiatives focused on democracy-building and my work has involved community mobilization and outreach in Colombia, particularly on counter-radicalization and narrative transformation. I have engaged in collaboration with civil society, media, business sectors, policymakers, and academic institutions and have linked local efforts with regional and global initiatives, facilitating alliances at national, regional, and international levels. My role has also included organizing conferences and workshops, authoring op-eds in prominent Colombian and Spanish media outlets such as El País, El Espectador, and La Silla Vacía, and presenting at forums across the USA, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

Name
Carlo Tognato
Occupation
Researcher
Expertise

Child soldiers, Ex-combatant reintegration, Forced conscription, Gang-related violence/non-state actors, Healthcare access/health systems capacity, Journalist persecution, Land tenure disputes, Mental illness, Military/police service, Political persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocation, Sufficiency of protection, Torture

Experience

I worked on cases with Communitology and independently with lawyers and legal organizations assisting asylum seekers. I was also Pro-Bono Champion for the Committee on Migration of the American Bar Association.

Publications

- Tognato, Carlo, Nadya B. Jaworsky, and Jeffrey Alexander (eds.). 2020. The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.

- Alexander, Jeffrey and Carlo Tognato (eds.). 2018. The Civil Sphere in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

- Tognato, Carlo. 2022. “Deciphering Social Protest: Insights from the Field of Sociocultural Intelligence,” American Intelligence Journal, 39(1) (2022): 126-135.

- Tognato, Carlo. 2021. “Commentary. Demarcating Constructive from Destructive Populisms: Civil Translation vs. Civil Mimicry.” Pp. 278-286 in Populism in the Civil Sphere, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Peter Kivisto, and Giuseppe Sciortino. Cambridge: Polity Press.

- Tognato, Carlo. 2020. “Radical Protest on a University Campus: Performances of Transition in Colombia.” Pp. 42-69 in Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere, edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Trevor Stack and Farhad Khosrokhavar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

- Tognato, Carlo. 2019. “Countering violent extremism through narrative intervention: For a decentering the local turn in peacebuilding.” Pp. 346-365 in As War Ends: What Colombia Can Tell Us about the Sustainability of Peace and Transitional Justice, edited by James Meernik, Jacqueline DeMeritt, and Mauricio Uribe-López. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

- Tognato, Carlo. 2019. “Conversaciones de paz en las universidades: performances de la transición en Colombia.” Pp. 167-197 in Sociedad, cultura y esfera civil: Una agenda de sociología cultural, edited by Nelson Arteaga Botello and Carlo Tognato. Mexico City: Editorial FLACSO-México.

- Tognato, Carlo. 2018. “Los justos en el conflicto armado colombiano: intercambios simbólicos euro-latinoamericanos para el posconflicto.” Sociedad y Economía, 33: 1-18.

- Tognato, Carlo. 2018. “Oil and Civil Society in Colombia”. In Public Brainpower: Civil Society and Natural Resource Management, edited by Indra Overland, Palgrave-Macmillan.

- Tognato, Carlo. 2012. “Representaciones enigmáticas del secuestro en Colombia: el papel posible de una escritura de la ambigüedad en sociedades divididas.” In Escritas da violência Vo. II: Representaςões da violencia na historia e na cultura contemporáneas da América Latina, edited by Márcio Seligmann-Silva, Jaime Ginzburg, and Francisco Foot Hardman. Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras.

- Tognato, Carlo. 2011. “Extending trauma across cultural divides: On kidnapping and solidarity in Colombia.” In Narrating Trauma: Studies in the Contingent Impact of Collective Suffering, edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Ron Eyerman, and Elizabeth Butler Breese. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.

Languages
English, Spanish, Italian
Fees
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Phone
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Address
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