Human Rights and the Colombian Military War Stories
Winifred Tate is an assistant professor of anthropology at Colby College and also Visiting Research Fellow at the National Security Archive. She working on a project examining U.S.- Colombian relations, the origin of Plan Colombia, and its implementation, conducting fieldwork in Washington, D.C. and Putumayo, Colombia.
She is the author of Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia (University of California Press, 2007), winner of the Michael Jimenez Prize for outstanding contribution to Colombian studies.
She has researched political violence, drug trafficking and US foreign policy towards Colombia as a consultant for a number of international organizations, including UNICEF, Human Rights Watch, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, the U.S. Institute of Peace, Human Rights First and Freedom House.
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Developing Area Studies, the Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.