Staff profile

Dr Camilo Ardila is a Career Development Fellow in International Relations and Security in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. He also serves as forum editor for the journal Pluriversal International Relations.

Before joining Durham, Camilo worked at the University of St Andrews, the University of Dundee and the University of Edinburgh, as well as at universities in Colombia. He was also a Visiting Research Fellow at PENSAR, Universidad Javeriana's Institute for Social and Cultural Studies, in Colombia. 

Camilo has an interdisciplinary background in political theory, socio-legal studies and philosophy. His research combines theoretical and archival approaches with participatory methods, particularly focus group discussions and interdisciplinary workshops. His teaching practice, which received the 1413 Inclusive Teaching Award from the University of St Andrews, incorporates these research methods.

Camilo's work currently focuses on reparations and reconciliation debates through the lens of pluriverse theories. He is currently writing his first monograph under contract with Duke University Press.

Research interests

• Reparations and transitional justice
• Critical approaches to international political theory and international law
• Democratic theory and pluralism
• Decolonial and pluriverse debates