CURRICULUM VITAE ELVIRA MARIA RESTREPO University of Miami Office:

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE ELVIRA MARIA RESTREPO University of Miami Office: EDUCATION 1999 PhD. in Politics, Oxford University, U.K. Department of Politics and International Relations 1990 Master-in-Law (LL.M.) Harvard University, U.S. Harvard Law School 1989 Lawyer (J.D.) Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia Law Faculty PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Jan 2012 present June 2005 present Aug 2007 Dec 2011 Aug 2004 July 2008 Oct 2003 July 2007 Research Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, University of Miami Member of the Board of Directors, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, University of Miami Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá Associate researcher of CEDE, interdisciplinary research institute involving Economics, Social Science and Politics, Universidad de los Andes Occasional columnist on current events, for El Espectador national Colombian newspaper Academic Director of the Professional Diploma in Security and Defense Economics Department, Universidad de los Andes Sept 2001 Sept 2003 Dec 1990 June 1992 Jul 1990 Dec 1990 Jul 1987 Jul 1989 Associate researcher of Fedesarrollo, a leading independent think-tank in Colombia Assistant to the Procurator General, Colombia Coordinator of the Preparatory Commission for Human Rights National Constitutional Assembly, Colombia Lawyer s Assistant at international law firm Prieto,Vallejo & Associates BOOKS The Colombian Criminal Justice in Crisis: Fear and Distrust, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 ISBN: Editor (with Bruce Bagley). La desmovilización de los paramilitares en Colombia: Entre el escepticismo y la esperanza. Editorial Uniandes and University of Miami, Bogota, 2011 ISBN:

2 BOOK CHAPTERS "Colombia and its Wars against Drug Trafficking, ". University of Florida Press. Forthcoming "Transitional Justice without a Compass: Paramilitary Demobilization in Colombia of refereed book After Oppression Transitional Justice in Latin America and Eastern Europe. Popovski, V. and M. Serrano (eds.), United Nations University Press, 2012 ISBN-13: La institucionalización de la memoria en Colombia: Más allá de la Ley de Justicia y Paz (LJP) La desmovilización de los paramilitares en Colombia: Entre el escepticismo y la esperanza. Editorial Uniandes and University of Miami, Bogota, 2011 ISBN: "The Pursuit of Efficiency and the Colombian Criminal Justice System" of refereed book Criminality, Public Security and the Challenges to Democracy in Latin America, Whitehead, L and M. Bergman (eds.), Notre Dame Press, 2009 ISBN 13: Conceptualización de la corrupción política, Corrupción en Colombia, Cepeda Ulloa, F. (ed.) Tercer Mundo Editores, 1997 ISBN 10: ISBN 13: PUBLICATIONS (Sole author or coauthor) Buried in the Public Opinion. The Colombian Paramilitary Project (Forthcoming) Simple mathematical law benchmarks human confrontations, Nature Scientific Reports, Sci. Rep. 3, 3463; DOI: /srep03463 (2013) Book Review. Villar and Cottle. Journal of Latin American Studies, 45, 2013, pp doi: /s x Entry for Colombia in Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice. S. Lavinia and N. Nedelsky (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN-13: Security in Bogotá: crime or fear of crime Desarrollo y Sociedad 59, Primer Semestre, 2007, pp Impunity or punishment? An analysis of criminal investigation into kidnapping, terrorism and embezzlement in Colombia, Global Crime Journal, Issue 2, Autumn "La justicia de paz en Bogotá". Descifrando la justicia. Corporación Excelencia en la Justicia, Septiembre "From old wars to new wars and global terrorism", online publication at Los Alamos site xxx.lanl.gov, paper (2005) This paper attracted significant attention in the international media. For example: "Rules of Engagement", The Economist print edition, July "The mathematics of warfare", The Economist online edition, July "This means war.", The Guardian national newspaper in U.K., August 4, 2005 "Is terrorism the next format for war?" Nature online, July 12, 2005

3 "Universal patterns underlying ongoing wars and terrorism", online publication at Los Alamos site xxx.lanl.gov, paper (2006) This paper also attracted significant attention in the international media. For example: "The Mathematical Structure of Terrorism", June 2006 Strategies to reduce extortive kidnapping in Colombia Coyuntura Económica, Fedesarrollo Octubre 2005, ISNN Some truths about criminal impunity Bien Común, Año XI, No. 122, Fundación Rafael Preciado Hernández, Ciudad de México, 2005 Justice as an instrument of peace, Debates de Coyuntura Social, Fedesarrollo, No 15, June 2003 WORKING PAPERS Bogotá: Más Crimen? Más Miedo? Documento CEDE No 45, Diciembre de 2006, ISNN Impunidad Penal: mitos y realidades Documento CEDE No 24, Junio 2004, ISNN Impunidad o Castigo? Análisis e implicaciones de la investigación penal en secuestro, terrorismo y peculado Restrepo, Sánchez y Martinez, Documento CEDE No. 9, Feb Universidad de los Andes, ISNN Corruption in Justice, and Corruption of Justice" Archive of Transparency International and the Colombian Presidential Program to Fight Corruption, RESEARCH PROJECTS AND FUNDING MINERVA, Federal Grant BAA Announcement # : Dynamical Multi-Actor Theory of Power and Escalation in the Digital Age. Application submitted (November 2013). Co-PI. Member Florida Regional Gang Reduction Strategy Task Force, June 2010-June 2011 Coordinator: Developing some indicators for an observatory of the Justice and Peace Law related to the recent demobilization of Colombian paramilitary. Contracted and financed by the Colombian President s Office, May to July Coordinator: Developing suitable measures for criminal investigations into kidnappings and extortion, contracted by the Vice-President s Office and financed by the Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Colombia, September 2006 to May 2007 Consultant: Observatorio Jueces de Paz en Bogotá. Contracted by the Corporación Excelencia en la Justicia and financed by the European Union, June 2005 to Feb 2006 Consultant: Implementación de una Jurisdicción de Pequeñas Causas en Colombia. Contracted by the Corporación Excelencia en la Justicia and financed by PNUD COL/02/017, Jan-June 2005

4 Coordinator: Estructura de Apoyo (EDA) Arauca. Contracted by the Corporación Excelencia en la Justicia and financed by Occidental Petroleum Corporation and the Corporación Excelencia Justicia, Oct-Dec 2004 Consultant: Evolución del Homicidio en Colombia y determinantes del Éxito de la Justicia para esclarecer este delito y disminuir las tasas de impunidad. Contracted by FONADE and financed by the Inter-American Development Bank, CEDE and DNP, 2004 Coordinator: Línea de base general de los principales sectores socioeconómicos a nivel nacional. Indicadores de Justicia e Interior. Contracted and financed by DNP-FONADE, Jan-Sept 2004 Coordinator: Estudio sobre las variables que inciden en el éxito o fracaso de las investigaciones penales del secuestro extorsivo, el terrorismo y el peculado- Fase II, financed by the Inter- American Development Bank and contracted by the Fiscalía General de la Nación, Jan-Dec 2003 Coordinator: Excelencia Institucional en la Fiscalía Fase I- Diagnóstico, financed by Inter- American Development Bank and contracted by the Fiscalía General de la Nación, Sept-Dec 2002 SELECTION OF INVITED AND PLENARY TALKS Invited Talk, American Foreign Law Association (AFLA). Hunton and Williams LLP, New York, 9 November Title: Law in War. Author of Paper, LASA, Washington May Title of the paper: Women Victims of Conflict as Peace Leaders. Invited Talk, Armed Conflict, Victims Reparation and Land Restitution in Colombia, Jed D. Satow Conference Room, Lerner Hall Columbia University Columbia University, New York, 11 May Title of the paper: Reparation and Justice for the Victims Author and chair of Panel From Paramilitaries to Bacrim and Beyond: Drug trafficking, Political Violence, and Democratic Governance in contemporary Colombia, LASA, San Francisco, California, May, Title of the paper: The Colombian Paramilitary Project: Negligence, Fear, and Concealment Invited Talk, International Law Lecture Series, University of Miami Law School, 25 October 2011 Title: Transitional Justice for New Wars Author and chair of Panel on Violence in Latin America and its Different Actors level. LASA Toronto, Canada 6-9 October Title of the paper: The changing Remnants of the Colombian Paramilitary and their Impact in the Region Invited Talk at the Colombian Strategic Culture Workshop. 3 September 2009 Florida International University Applied Research Center (ARC) & Latin American & Caribbean Center Title of the paper: Strategic Culture and the Colombia Law of Justice and Peace Organizer and Invited Talk at the Conference on The Justice and Peace Law and the Demobilization of Colombian Paramilitary, University of Miami, 4-6 December 2008.

5 Title of the paper: "An Observatory for the Process of Demobilization of the Colombian Paramilitaries" Invited Talk at Conference Transitional Justice and Democratic Consolidation: Comparing the Effectiveness of the Accountability Mechanisms in Eastern Europe and Latin America; October 2008, Nuffield College, Oxford University Title of the paper: "Paramilitary Demobilization in Colombia: Transitional Justice in the Midst of the Ongoing Conflict" Invited Talk at Conference New Directions in Drug and Crime Control Policies; April 2008, Colegio de Mexico, Cide and Oxford University, Title of the paper: "Colombia and its Wars against Drug Trafficking: 1970 Present" Invited Talk at the Seminar Mimicry in Civil Wars: The strategic use of identity signals; 7-8 December 2007, College de France, Paris. Title of the paper: Three cases of mimicry in Colombia: kidnappers, paramilitary and reinsertados Co-author on invited paper at the international workshop on Crime Hot Spots: Behavioral, Computational and Mathematical Models; Jan 29 - Feb 2, 2007, at UCLA Title of paper: "Common temporal patterns in crime and conflict" Invited Talk at Foro de Justicia Penal en México. Juicios Orales: una reforma necesaria, Konrad- Adenauer-Stiftung y Fundación Preciado, México City, México, Dec, Title of the paper: "El Nuevo sistema acusatorio en Colombia Invited Talk at Conference on "The Challenges of Rising Criminality to Democracy and Rule of Law in Latin America, Nuffield College, Oxford, U.K., June, 2004 Title of the paper: "Quantifying the changes of the Colombian criminal justice reforms". In addition, I have given various talks to professional and governmental entities, in the capacity of paid consultant and/or advisor. PERSONAL DATA Nationality: Colombian and British. US Resident Languages: Fluent in Spanish, French and English Marital status: Married, with three children