Dr Francy Carranza Franco

Independent Scholar Fellow

The Lost Leadership: a Network Analysis on the Killing of Activists and Defenders in Colombia

Developing an innovative network analysis to map out the affected communities and grass-roots movements and how these killings and other selective violence have fractured their social tissue, disintegrated organizational ties and diminished their capacity to participate in democracy.

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Biography

Dr. Francy Carranza Franco holds a PhD in Development Studies (SOAS), a Msc in Social Psychology (LSE), and a BA in Psychology (National University of Colombia). She has 20 of year experience as researcher on armed conflict, peacebuilding, security, citizenship, Demobilization, Disarmament and Reinsertion (DDR), women combatants, land issues, education policy and rural education, the killing of social leaders, technologies for citizen mobilization, mental health and public administration. Currently she is an associated researcher at the Observatory of Restitution and Regulation of Agrarian Property Rights and honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Biographical details correct as of 09.04.26

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