Estefania Ciro Rodríguez

Estefanía is a Researcher at the Thinking Center of the Colombian Amazon, AlaOrillaDelRío and a winner of the UNESCO Juan Bosch Prize for the promotion of Research in Social Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2018. Economist from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, master’s degree in History at the same university and graduate with honorable mention of the Doctorate in Sociology of the Postgraduate Program in Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico with a research on the life trajectories of coca growers in the Colombian Amazon and the legitimacy of coca cultivation in the context of poverty, violence and prohibitionist drug policy. Investigate coca, rural communities and the construction of the state in Latin America. Study the process of implementation of the peace agreements between the Santos government and the FARC.