“Exhuming Truth”, Constructing Evidence: The Production of Forensic Knowledge in Post-conflict Somaliland and Peru
Shakira Bedoya Sánchez studied law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, at the University of Helsinki and at the University of Freiburg. She has also been a fellow at the United Nations Office at Geneva, and a lecturer at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights in Helsinki. In Germany, she was a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law and at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. In 2012 and 2013, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. She has participated in the work of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and worked as a legal clerk at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C, and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Bedoya Sánchez's current project aims to study the production of knowledge of forensic expertise surrounding exhumation initiatives and how this knowledge and its epistemological preconditions relate to legal issues of justice. A comparative analysis between these initiatives and the building up of a theoretical framework will be the main focus of her research in Berlin.
