María Cárdenas

María Cárdenas is a German-Colombian researcher and lecturer at Goethe-University of Frankfurt (Germany). After extensive activist research in Colombia, she is now finalizing her dissertation on the decolonizing potential of ethnic(ized) agency within the transition period of armed conflicts. Her research interests include decolonial and anti-racist perspectives on peace research and practice. She also works as advisor for conflict-sensitive and decolonial peace and youth development and is active in the Colombian-diasporic and German peace movement. Since 2021, she is co-speaker of the working group “Critical Peace Research” of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies.