Richard Georgi was a Senior Research Fellow in the project on norm contestations over human rights due diligence. He developed his interdisciplinary background in education and research through a PhD in Peace and Development from the University of Gothenburg and a Diplom in Political Science from the Free University Berlin. He held positions as contract researcher for the German Insitute for Human Rights and as human rights observer in Mexico. He also gathered substantial volunteering experiences for activist organizations in different countries.
In his dissertation, he researched the politics of human rights activism in Colombia amid a violent reality characterized by the end of the armed conflict with the FARC-EP and the deferred promise of peace. The PhD thesis focuses on the voices of human rights defenders in very different positions and Colombian regions, which he gathered through participant observation, in-depth interviews, and document analysis. The four research articles, which form the backbone of the thesis, link the testimonies of human rights defenders with scholarly debates, not limited to the fields of human rights, international relations, and peace & conflict studies.
Richard Georgi has researched, taught, and published on: human rights, activism, political mobilization and populism, peace and conflict, transitional justice, (digital) capitalism and justice, de-constructionist political philosophy, discourse theory & ethnography of discourses, and feminist methodologies.
School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg; Supervisors: Maria Stern and Johan K. Schaffer; Committee: Neve Gordon (University College London), Marie-Christine Doran (University of Ottawa), Luis Eslava (University of Kent), Bart Klem (University of Gothenburg)
