Ph.D. in social geography at the University of Rennes 2, France. Teaching and research focus on conflict analysis, security, peace studies, methodologies in peace and conflict, and epistemologies of social space and environmental thought.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS 

• Peña, Luis (2017) Urban security in motion: State, collective actions, and daily practices in the face of insecurity. Bogota CIDS Externado University of Colombia.
• Peña, Luis, (with other authors) in 2013. Territories of life, participation and dignity for children and young people. Research on the activation and reinforcement of networks for the joy of human rights. Research Institute for education and pedagogical development. IDEP, mayor of Bogotá. Colombia.
• Peña, Luis, Some methodological elements to think spatially in social sciences. University extership of Colombia. Research Center on Social Dynamics. CIDS. 2011.
• Peña, Luis, Essays on urban security and residential security. University extership of Colombia. Research Center on Social Dynamics. CIDS. 2011.

BOOKS CHAPTER 

• Peña, Luis (2022) “Theories of reconciliation. Basic coordinates for navigating debates on building better relationships in societies in transition”, in Reconciliation, Heritage and Social Inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa by Iyad Muhsen AlDajani (Editor), Martin Leiner (Editor), Springer.  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-08713-4_5?fbclid=IwAR3UbukHmZleEU5P9QHAso8ZlGgpFRNlkIoqO_soYS0Dd_Un-5ZTDsoUyc4
• Peña, Luis (2022) “The spatiality of the peace” in Reconciliation, Heritage and Social Inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa by Iyad Muhsen AlDajani (Editor), Martin Leiner (Editor), Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-08713-4_25  
• Peña, Luis (2019), “if all you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. Securitartist political common sense in Colombia”. When will the tremor finish? Crisis, violence and peace in contemporary Latin America. Arias, D. Hatzky, C (editors). Center for Historical Research of Central America CIHAC. CALAS. San Jose of Costa Rica. https://cihac.fcs.ucr.ac.cr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DiazHatsky-978-9968-919-48-7.pdf
• Peña, Luis, (2019) “Youth, actions, networks and space in the production of security in Bogotá”. In Gutiérrez Cham, Gerardo; Kaltmeier, Olaf (eds.): Here young people! Facing the crisis, Guadalajara: Editorial of the University of Guadalajara. CALAS. https://www.kerwa.ucr.ac.cr/bitstream/handle/10669/80998/2019-Un%2068%20imaginado.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
• Peña, Luis, (2019) Constroversies over territorial peace. Lessons from social organizations on the relationship of the territory with the construction of peace: ASPROUL. Free University, Bogotá.

ARTICLES IN ACADEMIC REVIEWS 

• Peña, Luis, 2022. Territorializing peace: how do we make peacebuilding territorial? Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs. Policy Brief No. 9, Notre Dame. https://curate.nd.edu/show/cr56n01348k
• Peña, Luis (2019), Territorial peace: connecting moral imagination and geographical imagination. German Colombian Center for Peace Studies. CAPAZ. Series: Documents. No. 2           https://www.instituto-capaz.org/en/documento-de-trabajo-capaz-paz-territorial-conectando-imaginacion-moral-e-imaginacion-geografica/
• Hanson, S.L., Sykes, M., & Pena, L.B. (2018). Gender Equity in Science: The Global Context. Int’l J. Soc. Sci. Stud., 6, 33. https://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/2704
• Peña, Luis, 2016 ” The Secunormativity: the urban sociability seen throughout every day´s surveillance practices.”     URVIO-Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Seguridad 18 (2016): 104-123. https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/urvio/article/view/1792
• Peña, Luis, 2016. Defending the capital: the securitisation of the space of dependence of Bogota during  Uribe Vélez administration. Cuadernos de Geografía, 25(2), 251. https://www.redalyc.org/journal/2818/281846286013/ 
• Peña, Luis, 2014. Contentious collective action, political process and the securitization of urban space. Construction geographies of hope. Territories Magazine, (31), 57-83. Doi: dx.doi.org/10.12804/territ31 https://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/territorios/article/view/3449
• Peña, Luis, 2011, public security and the new forms of urban segregation. Newspaper of the National Police, no 6 – 07 2011 http://www.policia.gov.co – ISSN 0122-0411.
• Peña, Luis, Conceptions of conflict in social geography. Sketch for a geography of conflicts. Geography notebooks of the National University of Colombia, 2008.
• Peña, Luis, Theories of development. Geography notebooks of the National University of Colombia, vol. X, no. 1-2, p. 201-235, 2001.
• Pena, Luis. Sketch of the discussions on the landscape. Geography notebooks, National University of Colombia, vol. VII, no. 1-2, p.216-250, 1998.
• Peña, Luis, Some moments of the debate on the concept of space in the history of geographical thought. GeoPraxis Magazine, p. 34-42, August 15. 2002.
• Peña, Luis, About the GPS Global Positioning System. Geography notebooks, National University of Colombia, vol. VI, no. 1-2, p. 39-59, 1997.

Accepted chapters not issued

• Peace from Az Mapu perspective. The moral imagination and the geographical imagination in the visions of peace of the Mapuche. CALAS. Book on Visions of Peace. Guadalajara.
• Epistemic violence and environmental violence in Latin American Environmental Decolonial Thought. For the book Environmental Violence. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies.

PRESS AND INTERVIEWS

• Peña, Luis, Mapuche´s vision of peace. Podcast Saberes para Contar by INER Institute of Regional Studies, Antioquia University. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Xttx820TwTimJsAMigBPG?si=cd792941cd7941e7 
• Peña, Luis September 12, 2022 The Kroc Cast: Peace Studies Conversations https://thekroccast.podbean.com/e/peace-accords-matrix-policy-briefs-author-roundtable-part-2/
• Peña, Luis,  9 Aug 2022  “El mensaje del ‘perdón social’ no es un mensaje claro” https://www.elespectador.com/politica/el-mensaje-del-perdon-social-no-es-un-mensaje-claro-luis-pena/?outputType=amp
• Peña, Luis. You also know how to forgive. El Espectador. 28.09.2016 http://www.elespectador.com/opinion/usted-tambien-sabe-perdonar
• Peña, Luis. Peace is de-securitizing. El Espectador. 09/21/2016. http://www.elespectador.com/opinion/paz-de-securitizar
• Peña, Luis. The daily philosophy of NO. El Espectador. 15.09.2016. http://www.elespectador.com/opinion/filosfia-cotidiana-del-no
• Peña, Luis, Think geographically. El Espectador. 08.17.2016 http://www.elespectador.com/opinion/prensa-no-se-piensa-geograficamente
• Peña, Luis, The geography of YES is the road map. El Espectador. 08.10.2016 http://www.elespectador.com/opinion/geografia-del-si-hoja-de-ruta

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
 
·               Pena Luis, 18-20, 2022, Interdependence from environmental philosophy. An agenda for the political ecology of reconciliation.  International Association of Reconciliation Studies. IARS – World Conference on Reconciliation. Carter School For Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University – Washington, DC 2022 Washington. AUGUST https://www.iars-world.de/files/ugd/abe8ae_1ffa7cff83db42e6887d25ba4c002ac4.pdf ·               Peña, Luis, 16.9.2022. Cartography of controversies for peace and conflicts research. Manizales, Colombia. Caldas University ·               Peña, Luis, does the geography of peace make sense? XVIII Meeting of geographies of Latin America. Building emancipatory knowledge from and for the territories” EGAL 2021 November 30, December 1, 2, 3 and 4, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKI22UOGP3w My speech starts at minute 20:00• Peña, Luis. The city in the territorialization of the State. In the event: The territory in the internal armed conflict and its urban dynamics of the Colombian Truth Commission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvxdOtRU4a8. My intervention starts at the 21:00 minute. ·               Peña, Luis, Reconciliation, more than forgiveness. VI international meeting of School of Forgiveness and Reconciliation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLI8ut92nDk&list=PL6BviGSEzkSvaseSRwKKQfYrti14hOvG0&index=14&t=3242s  ·               Pena Luis, (2021) The peace from the perspective of Az Mapu cosmovision. The vision of peace of Mapuche. ARCOSur, Jena University. https://www.gw.uni-jena.de/es/fakult%C3%A4t/arcosur/eventos/ciclos+de+conferencias/semestre+de+verano+2021#:~:text=https%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DmI6GYSiWJnE
·               Peña, Luis. (2020) Contemporary perspectives on reconciliation in the International Virtual Seminar, Second Session: Geopolitics of Peace: peace negotiations, truth, and reconciliation in comparative perspective. Institute of Regional Studies and the Directorate of International Relations of the University of Antioquia together with the University of Groningen (Holland) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg1aK-EBFOA
·               Pena, Luis, (2020) ‘Actional turn in spatial analysis: the assemblage of existential territories. In the seminar methodologies of socio-spatial research in Socio-spatial Studies of the Institute of Regional Studies, https://te-in.facebook.com/iner.udea/videos/redminario-03-el-oficio-de-la-investigaci%C3%B3n-socioespacial-giro-accional-en-el-an/692221551407022/
·               Pena, Luis (2020) Multilayered conflict. Multilayered reconciliation challenges. At an International Web-Conference on Reconciliation in the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict. The Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and Ukrainian Association of Psychosynthesis and Psychotherapy organize. September 28, 2020, https://www.jcrs.uni-jena.de/save+the+dates!/reconciliation+in+the+russian-ukrainian+conflict
·               Pena, Luis (2020) Globalists versus sovereignists. Globalization, neoliberalism, geopolitics: public health and the food crisis in times of the Pandemic. Conferences Georaizal, April 23, 2020: https://www.facebook.com/geouexternado/
·               Peña, Luis. 2019. The actions-visions of Peace among the Mapuche. Contrasts and synergies with those of Colombian social organizations “in Platform for dialogue” Peace: visions, strategies, struggles “Guadalajara, Mexico, Academic FIL December 4,5,6, 2019 http://www.calas.lat/es/eventos/plataforma-para-di%C3%A1logo-paz-visiones-estrategias-luchas
·               Pena, Luis, (2019) The securitarist political common sense in Colombia and Peace challenges. Dialogue Platform “New hate speech and its counter-discourses in Latin America” October 15-17, 2019 Merian CALAS Regional Headquarters Southern Cone Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.calas.lat/sites/default/files/16_final_programa_plataforma_calas_2019_.pdf 
·               Pena, Luis, (2019) Local epistemologies on the body-nature-territory harmonization. Struggles for recognition and humanization. 1st International Congress of Human Sciences – Humanities between past and future. Proceedings San Martin University https://www.aacademica.org/1.congreso.internacional.de.ciencias.humanas/1191
C          Peña, Luis (2018) Youth, actions, networks and space in the production of security in Bogotá April 2018 in Guadalajara the First Latin American Youth Congress of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) https: //www.gw.uni-jena .de / es / fakult% C3% A4t / arcosur / research% C3% B3n / + research + projects% C3% B3n / coves https://www.gw.uni-jena.de/es/fakult%C3%A4t/arcosur/investigaci%C3%B3n/proyectos+de+investigaci%C3%B3n/calas
·               Peña, Luis. 27-28/05/2019The moral and geographical imagination of social movements in Colombia. The lesson about territorial Peace.” In the Colombian Day. The Implementation Of Peace Agreements In Colombia. Peace Is Not Felt, But The Hope Is Kept. Organized for JCRS and CALAS https://www.jcrs.uni-jena.de/events+archive
·               Peña, Luis. 2018. Peace education in a deeply divided society.  International Pedagogical Congress Asproul “For An Inclusive Education And Social Commitment For Sustainable Peace. Free University, Bogotá. October 10,11, 12. http://www.unilibre.edu.co/cartagena/index.php/la-universidad/agenda-informativa-0/287-ii-congreso-pedagogico-internacional-asproul-2018-por-una-educacion-inclusiva-y-de-compromiso-social-para-la-paz-sostenible
·               Peña, Luis, 2018. Unboxing the urban sociability and the political common sense in Colombia. The everyday entanglement of security in a deeply divided society. Section 06 Capitalism and Violence in the City: Re-thinking Global Transitions in the 21st century at the European International Studies Association (EISA) Pan-European Conference http://www.eisapec18.org, Prague, 12-15 September 2018.
·               Peña, Luis, Defend the capital: military strategies in the dependency space of Bogotá. Jornadas Georaizal: the relations between the cities in the construction of Peace. University Externado of Colombia. 28. September 2017
·               Peña, Luis, Speakers. Decolonize the analysis of the Latin American city. AK Latin America Hamburg, 02.12.2016. https://www.geo.uni-hamburg.de/geographie/programm.pdf
·               Peña, Luis, Lecturer. Unboxing urban sociability in a deeply divided society. 17th N-AERUS Conference: 2016 Gothenburg (Sweden), Governing, planning, and managing the city in an uncertain world. http://n-aerus.net/wp/?page_id=339
·               Peña, Luis, speaker. The Secunormativity: the urban sociability seen throughout the everyday´s surveillance practices. VII Conference on Latin-American Social Sciences (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales-CLACSO) Monday, November 09, 2015, to Friday, November 13, 2015, Medellin, Colombia
·               Peña, Luis, speaker. The contentious collective action, political innovations, and the right to the city in Latin America. The case of Bogotá. “30 Annual Meeting of Austrian studies on Latin America” Thematic Panel.
·               Politics and Institutions in Latin America “. LAF Austria – Austrian Institute for Latin America. Date 13-15. June 2014 Strobl, Austria.
·               Peña, Luis, Speaker. The security in the context of the state´s spatial policies. Towards an urban geopolitics. Seminar “Geographical perspectives on Latin American city” Thematic Panel: Urban Geopolitics: ensure dependency area of the city. 21 and 22 May 2014. Bogotá.
·               Peña, Luis Rapporteur. International seminar on traditional intervention centers. French Institute of Andean Studies UMIFRE 17 (CNRS / MAE), the French regional cooperation in the Andean countries, French Institute (Fonds d’Alembert), Institute of IDPC cultural heritage of the Mayor of Bogota, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Externado University of Colombia, Bogotá – 27 and 28 November 2013. Lange: Spanish.
·               Luis Peña. Speaker. Urban violence, security policies, and social organizations in Bogotá. Symposium: Latino American Thought. Winter semester, 2012-2013. Tubingen University. 6 December 2012. Language: Spanish.
·               Peña, Luis, speaker. Security policies and Securing practices in the production of urban space in Latin America: the Colombian case. Winter Symposium. Centre of Area Studies, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. December 14, 2011. Language: English
·               Peña, Luis. Organizer. Forum: Colombian social organizations, crisis, and social sciences. Laboratory crisis. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. University of British external. May 9, 2011.
·               Peña, Luis, speaker. Rights and integral security. Comments about security observatories in Latin America. In the seminar: Construction of the National Police of Ecuador’s new identity in the context of public policy on citizen security: April 28, 2011. Quito, Ecuador.
·               Peña, Luis, speaker. Urban security policies in Bogotá. Competition between urban rights. French Institute of Andean Studies. IFEA. March 10, 2011.
·               Peña, Luis. Organizer. Forum: Colombian social organizations, crisis, and social sciences. Laboratory crisis. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. University Externado of Colombia. 25 October 2010. 
·               Peña, Luis, Young people in the works on urban Security in Colombia. Memories of the forum. Youth and violence. “Stigma or reality? April 23, 2008  
·               Peña, Luis. Critical Geography of Colombia’s conflict: starting points for understanding the relationship between transnational capitalism and violence in Colombia. In: Fourth Conference of Critical Geography, 2005, Mexico City. Papers of the Fourth Conference of Critical Geography. 2005.