Dr Eslava undertook research on security and development in Cali together with Lina Buchely, an Assistant Professor at the Universidad ICESI in Colombia as part of a broader project on \u2018Inclusionary Practices\u2019 involving academics at Kent Law School and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil.<\/p>\n
Inclusionary Practices is a collaborative research relationship led by Head of Kent Law School Professor Toni Williams as Principal Investigator and Professor Fabricio Polido from UFMG as co-investigator. The project, funded by a British Academy\u2019s International Partnership and Mobility Award, investigates how different forms of law and regulation are used to implement social and economic inclusion policies in Latin America and the EU.<\/p>\n
Dr Eslava and Lina Buchely have also written an article on security and development, using Cali as a case study, which will feature in Revista de Estudios Sociales<\/em> \u2013 a leading social sciences journal in Latin America. The article, which will be published in English next year, was accepted for a special issue on law and post-conflict in Colombia. Dr Eslava and Lina have been supported in their work by grants from Kent Law School and ICESI. They plan to apply for further funding to enable them to conduct more sustained fieldwork visits in Colombia.<\/p>\n Senior Lecturer Dr Eslava<\/a> is Co-Director of the Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL<\/a>) at Kent. He is also Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar (2018) at Melbourne Law School in Australia. His book Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2015) was awarded the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize and the Prize for Early Career Academics by the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) in 2016.<\/p>\n
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