Social and Political Dialogue

Borja Paladini Adell is a political scientist and consultant specialising in peacebuilding, dialogue, mediation and the evaluation of peace policies, with more than twenty years of international experience, particularly in Latin America and Colombia. He is the founder of Stay Curious Advisors, through which he has advised governments, international organisations and civil society organisations on peace processes and conflict transformation.

He has worked extensively on the Colombian peace process. He was part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Colombia and directed the Barometer Initiative of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (University of Notre Dame), which monitors the implementation of the 2016 Final Peace Agreement. He has also been Practitioner in Residence at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and has collaborated with organisations such as GIZ, NOREF and the Berghof Foundation.

His areas of expertise include the implementation of peace agreements, transitional justice, civil society participation, and territorial and environmental approaches to peacebuilding. At ICIP, he heads the “Social and Political Dialogue” area.