Katherine Aguirre Tobón
Researcher, Igarapé Institute (Brasil)
Coordinator Amassuru - Women's network on security and defense in LAC
twitter: @katheaguirreCOL
email: katherine [at] igarape [dot] org [dot] br
Researcher, Igarapé Institute (Brasil)
Coordinator Amassuru - Women's network on security and defense in LAC
twitter: @katheaguirreCOL
email: katherine [at] igarape [dot] org [dot] br
small arms and light weapons | Latin America | gender
Katherine Aguirre Tobón is a Colombian researcher at Igarapé Institute (Brasil) working in the fields of armed violence and development. Her interests include local arms control initiatives and gender perspectives of disarmament. She is a coordinator of the Women in Security and Defense Network in Latin America and the Caribbean – Amassuru, participates in the The Gender Equality Network for Small Arms Control, and is the editor of Collaborative Newsletter Gender and Women SEHLAC.
Katherine Aguirre Tobón is a Colombian researcher at Igarapé Institute (Brasil) working in the fields of armed violence and development. Her interests include local arms control initiatives and gender perspectives of disarmament. She is a coordinator of the Women in Security and Defense Network in Latin America and the Caribbean – Amassuru, participates in the The Gender Equality Network for Small Arms Control, and is the editor of Collaborative Newsletter Gender and Women SEHLAC.
Recent Publications:
- "In the Americas, Homicide Is the Other Killer Epidemic," Foreign Policy, May 20, 2022.*
- "Ocho Mitos de los Defensores del Porte de Armas Desmentidos," La Silla Vacía, March 27, 2024.*
- "The state of police violence in the Americas," Small Wars Journal, September 13, 2021.*
- "Understanding the Flow of Illegal Weapons in Central America," with others in Gun Trafficking and Violence: From The Global Network to The Local Security Challenge, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
- "Arming The Americas," (with Rob Muggah), The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America, October 2020.
- "El enfoque de género enriquece la discusión sobre el control de armas en Colombia," (with Angélica Suárez), razonpublica, March 9, 2020
- "El tráfico de armas en Colombia: una revisión desde los orígenes a los destinos," Journal URVIO 10 (peer reviewed publication), Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLASCO), November 2011.
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