Associate Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics, Business and Sustainable Development, Universidad de La Salle (Bogotá). PhD. in International Law from the Univ. Alfonso X El Sabio (Spain).
What is legitimate and what is not? Should governments negotiate with terrorist and criminal networks to reduce crime and homicide? Both questions, and many others, arise under this theme. In terms of security and negotiations, there is a wide constellation of cases between states, insurgent groups, and guerrillas, but less so with terrorists or drug cartels.