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Marie-Christine Doran

Marie-Christine Doran

Full Professor of Compared Politics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
(French follows)
Marie-Christine Doran is a Full Professor of comparative politics at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, specializing in democratization, human rights, and violence in Latin America. She is also a consultant on Latin American issues for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada (Global Affairs Canada) since 2015. She holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-SSHRCC grant on “Violence and Democracy: the Criminalization of Struggles for rights in Latin America (2018-2025), for which she is main researcher of a team of 7 specialists and Director of the Observatory on Violence, Criminalization and Democracy. Since the beginning of her career, Marie-Christine Doran has obtained research grants totalizing over 1 700 000 $ CAN for projects focused on the persistence of violence in democratic context in Latin America, the nature of political regimes, the weight of authoritarian political and legal legacies, the impact of social movements for rights, justice and memory, and the impact of violence by state and non-state actors on women, LGBTQ+ communities, indigenous and Afro-descendant defenders, in order to find solutions that reinforce democracy. She is a researcher at the International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV), and other international research platforms in Europe and Latin America, including the Brazilian CAPES International Research Network on Conflict Management in Plural Public Spaces Her published work include numerous peer-reviewed articles in four languages, some of which can be found at Academia and Researchgate, as well as two books, Le réveil démocratique du Chili. Une histoire politique de l’exigence de justice, (foreword by Alain Touraine,: Karthala 2016); as well as Human Rights as Battlefields. Changing Practices and Contestations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and a third forthcoming book, Criminalizing Democracy:the Hidden Face of Violence in Latin America, to be published at Routledge in 2024. She is regularly invited to comment on Latin American politics and violence in Canadian and international media.
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Marie-Christine Doran, PhD
Marie-Christine Doran est professeure titulaire de politique comparée à l’École d’études politiques de l’université d’Ottawa, spécialiste de la démocratisation, des droits humains et de la violence en Amérique latine. Elle est aussi consultante pour le Ministère des Affaires Mondiales Canada depuis 2015.Elle est chercheure principale d’une subvention du Conseil de recherches en Sciences humaines du Canada-CRSH pour le projet « Violence et démocratie : la criminalisation de la lutte pour les droits en Amérique latine » pour lequel elle dirige une équipe de 7 chercheur.e.s, ainsi que l’Observatoire violence, criminalisation et démocratie-OVCD. Depuis les débuts de sa carrière, elle a obtenu près de 1 700 000 $ (CAN).en subventions de recherche, au Canada et à l’international, pour des recherches portant notamment sur la persistance de la violence en contexte démocratique latino-américain, la nature des régimes politiques, le poids des héritages politiques et juridiques autoritaires, l'impact des mouvements sociaux pour les droits, la justice et la mémoire, ainsi que l'impact de la violence exercée par les acteurs étatiques et non étatiques sur les femmes, communautés LGBTQ+, les défenseurs autochtones et afro-descendants, afin de trouver des solutions qui renforcent la démocratie. Elle est chercheure dans plusieurs équipes internationales en Europe et Amérique latine dont l’International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV) et l’équipe brésilienne CAPES International Research Network on Conflict Management in Plural Public Spaces. Elle a été Fellow à l’université Harvard University, et professeure invitée, notamment à École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Ses publications en 4 langues incluent de nombreux articles dont plusieurs sont disponibles sur Academia et Researchgate. mais aussi 2 ouvrages : Le réveil démocratique du Chili. Une histoire politique de l’exigence de justice, (foreword by Alain Touraine,: Karthala 2016); as well as Human Rights as Battlefields. Changing Practices and Contestations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), un 3ème ouvrage, Criminalizing Democracy:the Hidden Face of Violence in Latin America, paraîtra chez Routledge en 2024.Elle est régulièrement invitee à commenter l’actualité latino-américaine dans les médias canadiens et internationaux.

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