Staff profile

Germán Otálora-Gallego is a PhD candidate at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, funded by a Durham Doctoral Studentship.

His research focuses on peace, conflict, and transitional justice processes, particularly on the intersections between informal initiatives with a gender approach and top-down transitional justice mechanisms in Colombia.

Germán previously worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia (2011--2018). He is an ad-hoc researcher for the Global Initiative Against International Organised Crime, and a member of Rodeemos el Diálogo (Embrace Dialogue).

• Colombia
• Gender and Masculinities
• Peace and Conflict
• Transitional Justice

Chapter in book

• Masculinities in the colombian truth commission's final report: Challenges and opportunities for gender- transformative justice
  
  Ortiz-Acosta, M., & Otálora-Gallego, G. (2025). Masculinities in the colombian truth commission’s final report: Challenges and opportunities for gender- transformative justice. In H. Myrttinen, C. Lewis, H. Touquet, P. Schulz, F. Yousaf, & E. Laruni (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Masculinities, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (pp. 252-262). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003320876-26

Journal Article

• The Continuum of Direct and Structural Violence in (Transformative) Transitional Justice: Photovoices from Colombia
  
  Otálora-Gallego, G. (2025). The Continuum of Direct and Structural Violence in (Transformative) Transitional Justice: Photovoices from Colombia. The International Journal of Transitional Justice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijaf008
• Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit: Everyday Transformative Gender Justice in Colombia
  
  Otálora-Gallego, G., & Monroy-Santander, L. (2024). Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit: Everyday Transformative Gender Justice in Colombia. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 18(5), 659-680. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2314239

Report

• Colombian Victim and Survivor Leadership and Participation in Informal Transitional Justice
  
  Monroy-Santander, L., Colmenares, L., Cortés, L. X., Espitia Perdomo, V., & Otálora-Gallego, G. (2022). Colombian Victim and Survivor Leadership and Participation in Informal Transitional Justice. Impunity Watch.