Valentina Gonzalez Martinez

Professional Profile

Graduated in Law from the University of Ibagué, I have experience in legal practice, acquired through the exercise of my career as a student in charge of processes in different areas in the Legal Office, Conciliation Center and Human Rights Legal Clinic, being a Monitor student in the Area/Program of Legal Assistance to Populations in Need of International Protection and Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict of the Country of the Legal Office of the University of Ibagué; as well as, practitioner and research assistant at the German-Colombian Peace Institute – CAPAZ and as Ad honorem judicial assistant of the Constitutional Court. I am interested in everything related to the protection of vulnerable populations, human rights, constitutional law and international humanitarian law. In addition to the above, he has participated in research of academic content and in different projects related to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Network of Territories for Peace.

Academic Training

• 2017 – 2023: Law graduate from the University of Ibagué, Ibagué-Tolima.
• 2012 – 2016: Academic Bachelor Franciscano Jiménez de Cisneros Educational Institution, Ibagué – Tolima.

Work Experience

• Since May 2023, German-Colombian Peace Institute – CAPAZ
  Position: Research Assistant
• July 2022 – May 2023: Constitutional Court.
  Position: Judicial Assistant Ad honorem
• February 2022 – May 2022: German-Colombian Peace Institute – CAPAZ.
  Position: Research Internship
• February 2021 – November 2021: Legal Office, Conciliation Center and Human Rights Legal Clinic of the University of Ibagué
  Position: Legal Advisor, Public Defender, Assistant and Attorney.
• February 2021 – November 2021: Legal Office of the University of Ibagué.

Position: Student monitor in the Area/Program of Legal Assistance to Populations in Need of International Protection and Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict of the Country of the Legal Office of the University of Ibagué

Academic Experience

• Project: stabilization of the peace process in Colombia through justice, truth and the protection of human rights (JEP – CEV).
  Date: 2022.
  Occupation: research practitioner.
  Institution: German-Colombian Peace Institute – CAPAZ.
  
  
• Project: “Legal Assistance Program for Populations in Need of International Protection and Victims of the Armed Conflict.”
  Date: 2021.
  Student occupation.
  Institution: the Opción Legal corporation with the support of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
  
  
• Project: ECONOMIC CRIMINAL LAW Research Hotbed.
  Date: 2020-2021.
  Student occupation.
  Institution: University of Ibagué.