Staff profile

Dr Camilo Ardila is a Career Development Fellow in International Relations and Security in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. He also serves as forum editor for the journal Pluriversal International Relations.

Before joining Durham, Camilo worked at the University of St Andrews, the University of Dundee and the University of Edinburgh, as well as at universities in Colombia. Camilo was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies PENSAR in Colombia.

Camilo has an interdisciplinary background in political theory, socio-legal studies and philosophy. His research combines theoretical and archival approaches with participatory methods, particularly focus group discussions and workshops.

Camilo's work focuses on debates around reparations and reconciliation through the lens of pluriverse theories. He is currently writing his first monograph, which is under contract with Duke University Press.

Research interests

• Reparations and transitional justice
• International political theory and international law
• Democratic theory and onto-epistemic pluralism
• Decoloniality and pluriverse debates