
Anderson Manuel Vargas Coronel
Anderson Manuel Vargas Coronel
Defender of human rights and the rights of victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. PhD in History, MA in Law, specialist in Criminal Law, and lawyer at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Trained as a socio-legal researcher, thanks to the experience acquired mainly in the field, accompanying processes of damage characterization and individual and collective integral reparation. He has worked as an advisor and researcher in transitional justice and in the design and implementation of public policies and strategies for the satisfaction and guarantee of human rights. He participated as a researcher in the production of the report “Todo pasó frente a nuestros ojos. Genocidio de la Unión Patriotica 1984-2002” [“Everything happened in front of our eyes. Genocide of the Patriotic Union 1984-2002”] of the National Center for Historical Memory (2018) and is the author of several articles and book chapters related to human rights, transitional justice, and armed conflict in Colombia. He is currently a researcher at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ).