Julieta Lemaitre was an External Associate at PRIO until 2018.
Julieta Lemaitre
PRIO Global Fellow
Email: jlemaitr@uniandes.edu.co
Twitter: @LemaitreJulieta
Website: www.humanitarianstudies.no/people/julieta-lemaitre/
Research Interests
- Law and social movements
- Law and violence
- Violence against women
- Sexual and reproductive rights
Julieta Lemaitre is Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. She is a lawyer from Universidad de los Andes (1995), has an M.A. in gender and religious studies from NYU 1998 and a doctoral degree in law (SJD) from Harvard University (2007) with a concentration in law and society. Her research areas are law and social movements, law and violence, violence against women, and sexual and reproductive rights. She has collaborated with Kristin Sandvik at PRIO since 2009, and was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow in 2014. In the fall of 2014 and spring of 2015 she will also be Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow at the Yale Law School.
Latest publications
All publications
From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: Reflections on Durable Solutions in the Postconflict Setting
Book Chapter in Refugees' Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries
Humanitarian aid and host state capacity: the challenges of the Norwegian Refugee Council in Colombia
Journal Article in Third World Quarterly
Finding the Roads to Justice? Examining Trajectories of Transition for Internally Displaced Women in Colombia
Journal Article in Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
Humanitarian Aid in Relatively Strong Host States
PRIO Policy Brief
Structural Remedies and the One Million Pesos: On the Limits of Court-Ordered Social Change for Internally Displaced Women in Colombia
Book Chapter in The Public Law of Gender from the Local to the Global
After the War: Displaced Women, Ordinary Ethics, and Grassroots Reconstruction in Colombia
Journal Article in Social & Legal Studies
Tailoring Protection of Civilians to State Capacity
PRIO Policy Brief
From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: Transition from Humanitarian Crisis through Law Reform?
Popular Article in Reliefweb
From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: A Bottom-Up Reading of Law in Post-Conflict Transitions
Book Chapter in International Law and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Policy
Beyond Sexual Violence: Gendered Political Insecurity as a Threat to Peace
Popular Article in IntLawGrrls
Latest news
New Issue of PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update Out Now
The December 2017 issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is now out.
The PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update (GPS Update) is an electronic newsletter launched by the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security in response to growing interest among the public for information about gender, peace and security issues.
For any queries regarding the GPS Update, contact Julie Marie Hansen (julhan@prio.org).
PRIO Global Fellow Appointed to Colombian Peace Tribunal
Julieta Lemaitre is one of the 51 magistrates who will sit on the various courts of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia.
PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update (Issue 2-2015)
The lead story in this issue of the GPS Update is an interview with Julieta Lemaitre, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and PRIO Global Fellow, about a project studying the political and legal mobilisation of women’s organisations in Colombia. In this issue you can also read about another PRIO Global Fellow, Heidi Hudson, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, who visited PRIO during the first week of June. As usual, the GPS Update also gives you an update on relevant seminars, reports and policy briefs, as well as a list of publications which might be of interest to our readership.
Publications on ‘Internally Displaced Women’
In the project “The Significance of Political Organization and International Law for Displaced Women in Colombia: A Socio-legal study of Liga De Mujeres, Julieta Lemaitre (Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, PRIO Global Fellow and Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow, Yale Law School), Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (Senior Researcher at PRIO and Director of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies) and a team of graduate students have explored the importance of political mobilization and organization for the protection of the human security of internally displaced women in the period 2010-2013.
Two New PRIO Projects on the Effect of Aid
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) funds two PRIO projects on the effects of aid: “Conflict of Interest? ‘Business For Peace’ as Development Aid in Volatile Environments” and “Aid in Crisis? Rights-Based Approaches and Humanitarian Outcomes”.
PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update (Issue 1-2014)
The first 2014 issue of the GPS Update features a report from a seminar at PRIO with Betty Bigombe, former chief mediator in the conflict between the Lord's resistance Army (LRA) and the government of Uganda.
Global Fellows Programme at PRIO
Sandvik and Lemaitre featured at International Law Girls Blog
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik welcomed as contributor to the IntLawGrrls blog.
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