First name: Maurizio
Last name: Ali
Company / Organization: Universidad Santo Tomás
Briefly describe yourself:
Italian Traveller, Photojournalist and Academic Researcher
Interests: journalism, Indigenous, amerindian, native, ecology, "ecosophy", human development, communication for peace, armed conflict, ethnic media
Skills: Languages (italian, english, spanish, french, portuguese, kuna tule - dulegaya) - ICT (ECDL)
Website: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maurizio_Ali/
Country: Colombia
Primary region of activity: Latin America and the Caribbean
Member type: Civil Society
Primary professional involvement: Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
About me:
Italian photojournalist and academic researcher. I am the director of the "Communication in Conflict Context" Research Unit and the Media Observatory of the Faculty of Social Communication for Peace at the Saint Thomas University of Bogota, Colombia.
I have been workin during several years on indigenous communities in Panama and Colombia (kuna tule form San Blas, Arquia-Makilakuntiwala) and my fieldwork has been oriented to describe the effects of modernity on their everyday life and the impact of "development" on their cultural and ecological landscape (see my photoblog: Amasipu, Nuedi and AmazoniaMonAmour).
The results of my researches have been published as:
Books:
- (2010). “En estado de sitio: los kuna en Urabá. Vida cotidiana de una comunidad indígena en una zona de conflicto”. Universidad de Los Andes. Bogotá: CESO – Uniandes;
- (2003). (contributor). “Proposed new ways and means to strengthen the United Nations capability for collective action”. INF/2003/23. Geneva: United Nations Office.
Chapters of books:
- (2010). Conflicto, modernidad y desarrollo en un territorio de frontera. El caso de Urabá. In Serje, M. (ed.). Conflictos político-ambientales: estudios de caso. Bogotá: CESO - Uniandes
Articles in peer reviewed journals and academic data base:
Expertise: project design and management; human rights, social inclusion, capacity building and community-based programs; armed conflict; environmental and security sector; afro-descendents and indigenous issues; ecology and indigenous “ecosophy”; journalism in conflict contexts; formal, vocational and academic training.
Country expertise: Latin America (Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, French Guyana), Europe (Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, Denmark, Albania), South East Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia).
