Viviana García Pinzón is Senior Researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) in Freiburg and Associate at the Institute for Latin American Studies at GIGA. She holds a PhD in Political Science, with a focus on peace and conflict studies, from the Philipps University of Marburg and was part of the GIGA Doctoral Programme. Her research focuses on conflict and violence, local governance, peace and security with emphasis on cities and borderlands and a regional focus on Latin America. Her research was awarded the Christiane-Rajewsky Prize by the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK) in 2023 and the ADLAF-Prize (first place) by the German Association for Research on Latin America (ADLAF) in 2024.