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Catalina Perdomo

Catalina Perdomo works as a Research Associate on the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Project. She is responsible for maintaining the project databases on military expenditure in Africa, Latin America and Middle East. Prior to joining SIPRI in 2003, she worked in Management Sciences for Development (Bogotá), Fundación Ideas para la Paz (Washington, DC), and the Inter- American Development Bank (Washington, DC).

Education:

  • MA (Development Studies), Uppsala University- Government Department, Uppsala-Sweden, 2005 – 2006. Dissertation: "International Assistance for Security Sector Reform", with distinction.
  • BA (Government and International Relations), Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá-Colombia, 1998 - 2003.
  • Washington Semester Program (International Business and Trade), American University, Washington DC-USA, 2002.
  • Washington Semester Program (Foreign Policy), American University, Washington DC-USA, 2003.

    • Publications:

    • Stålenheim, P., Perdomo, C. and Sköns, E., “Military Expenditure”, in SIPRI Yearbook 2007: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International Security, SIPRI, Oxford University Press, 2007, (forthcoming).
    • Stålenheim, P., Perdomo, C. and Sköns, E., “Tables of Military Expenditure”, in SIPRI Yearbook 2007: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International Security, SIPRI, Oxford University Press, 2007, (forthcoming).
    • Perdomo, C. and Blomström, Å., “The Reporting of Military Expenditure Data”, in SIPRI Yearbook 2007: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International Security, SIPRI, Oxford University Press, 2007, (forthcoming).
    • Perdomo, C., “International Assistance for Security Sector Reform”, in Obsevatorio de Análisis de los Sistemas Internacionales (OASIS) 2006–07, no. 12, Centro de Investigaciones y Proyectos Especiales (CIPE), Facultad de Finanzas, Gobierno y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, pp. 77–117.
    • Stålenheim, P., Fruchart, D., Omitoogun, W., Perdomo, C., “Military Expenditure”, in SIPRI Yearbook 2006: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International Security, SIPRI, Oxford University Press, 2006.
    • Stålenheim, P., Fruchart, D., Omitoogun, W., Perdomo, C., “Tables of Military Expenditure”, in SIPRI Yearbook 2006: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International Security, SIPRI, Oxford University Press, 2006.
    • Perdomo, C. and Blomström, Å., “The Reporting of Military Expenditure Data”, in SIPRI Yearbook 2006: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International Security, SIPRI, Oxford University Press, 2006.
    • Bromley, M. and Perdomo, C., "CBMs in Latin America and the Effect of Arms Acquisitions by Venezuela", Real Instituto Elcano, Working Paper No. 41, Madrid, September 2005.
    • Sköns, E., Omitoogun, W., Perdomo, C., Stålenheim, P., “Military Expenditure”, in SIPRI Yearbook 2005: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International Security, SIPRI, Oxford University Press, 2005.
    • Stålenheim, P., Omitoogun, W., Perdomo, C., “Tables of Military Expenditure”, in SIPRI Yearbook 2005: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International Security, SIPRI, Oxford University Press, 2005.
    • Perdomo, C., Methodology for International Comparison of Government Priorities, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 17 September 2004, at URL http://www.sipri.org/contents/milap/milex/bgpapers/frontpage.htm.
    • Perdomo, C., Data for International Comparison of Government Priorities, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 17 September 2004, at URL http://www.sipri.org/contents/milap/milex/bgpapers/frontpage.htm.
    • Sköns, E., Perdomo, C., Perlo- Freeman, S., Stålenheim, P., “Military Expenditure”, in SIPRI Yearbook 2004: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International Security, SIPRI, Oxford University Press, 2004, P. 305- 339.
    • Stålenheim, P., Perdomo, C., Omitoogun, W., Sköns, E., “Tables of MilitaryExpenditure”, in SIPRI Yearbook 2004: Armaments, Disarmaments, and International Security, SIPRI, Oxford University Press, 2004, P. 305- 339.
    • Brakarz, J. and Perdomo, C., “Informe sobre la Implementación de la Estrategia de Desarrollo Subnacional”, in Serie de buenas prácticas de desarrollo sostenible, Inter- American Development Bank, Washington DC, December 2004

    Others:

    • Assisted the roundtable "Security Sector Reform: Public-private priorities", hosted by Security Defence Agenda (SDA) and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), Bibliothèque Solvay, (Brussels), 16 Apr. 2007.
    • Participant "Security Sector Reform Practitioners’ Course", hosted by the UK Global Facilitation Network- Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR), University of Birmingham, (Birmingham), 12-14 Mar. 2007.
    • Discussant of the paper "10 years of peace processes and development in the world" by Fisas, V., at the conference '10 Años de paz en Guatemala, 10 Años de paz en el mundo', Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, in cooperation with Generalitat de Catalunya and Secretaria de la Paz (SEPAZ) Guatemala, Barcelona, 6-8 November 2006.
    • Attended the Conference "Political change in Latin America: Implications for the Region, the US, the EU and Asia-Pacific", organized by Wilton Park 16-17 June 2006.
    • Presented the paper "Methodology for International Comparison of Government Priorities" at the Ecumenical Seminar on Arms Trade and Development, Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SWE-For), Brussels, 11-12 November 2005.
    • Attended the Conference "The Caribbean: How security and prosperity can be achieved?" organized by Wilton Park, 24-25 September 2005.
    • Participated in the Eighth and Ninth Annual Conferences on Economics and Security, hosted by the University of West of England and Bristol University (UK), June 2004 and June 2005.
    • Attended the Workshop on "Military Expenditure Processes in Africa", hosted by SIPRI and ASDR (Addis Ababa-Ethiopia), April 2005.
    • Attended the Conference "Sustainability of the Democratic Security Policy", hosted by Fundación Seguridad y Democracia and El Tiempo, (Bogotá-Colombia), February 2005.
    • Attended the NATO/Marshall Center Conference “Defence Economics IV- Economics Dimensions of Defence Institution Building” (Berlin), 21st -24th September 2004.
    • Participated in the 6th Annual Moot Court competition Human Rights Inter-American Contest Externado de Colombia University Delegate, (Washington D.C), July 2001.
    • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Observatorio de Análisis de los Sistemas Internacionales [Observatory for the Analysis of the International Systems], OASIS, from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, since 2007.
    • Member of Women in International Security, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
    • Member of the Red de Seguridad y Defensa de América Latina (RESDAL), Buenos Aires.
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