The Hague, The Netherlands
Email: leandro.cgg@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcgg/

Leandro is a Colombian sociologist (2005) and holds three master’s degrees: in Community Development (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia, 2014), Gender Studies (Universidad de Los Andes, 2021), and Interdisciplinary Development Studies (Universidad de Los Andes, 2021). He is currently pursuing a doctoral dissertation at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands, focusing on transitional justice and the inclusion of LGBTIQ+ victims/survivors in processes of truth-telling and reparation.

Throughout his professional career, he has worked as a researcher and manager of social projects related to peacebuilding. From 2013 to 2017, he collaborated with the Colombian government to design and implement psychosocial strategies to transform the social fabric and rebuild collective projects affected by the war. He has also applied popular education and participatory action research methodologies in collaboration with human rights organizations.

Since 2015, he has been engaged with the Diploma in Generative Dialogues, developed by the Interfas Foundation, the Taos Institute, and CINDE, first as a student and later as a faculty member. Within this learning community, and with the guidance of Dora Fried Schnitman and the team, he has advanced qualitative research practices inspired by the generative perspective. He has applied this approach to survivor communities affected by Colombia’s ongoing armed conflict and social organizations advocating for peacebuilding and human rights. Notably, he has collaborated with organizations representing LGBTIQ+ victims in institutional settings created by the Colombian Peace Accord. The practice of generative research and evaluation has supported these organizations in developing innovative alternatives to strengthen their political agendas for peacebuilding and human rights advocacy.

In addition, he has worked in international development and currently serves as the Research Manager for the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Colombia. In this role, he specializes in learning, adaptation, and evidence-based decision-making processes, utilizing social research methods and generative dialogues to co-create learning scenarios with technical teams and implementing partners involved in the Agency’s development programs.

His areas of expertise and interest, all connected to peacebuilding in Colombia, include:

• Policy Analysis and Generative Research
• Generative Dialogues in Qualitative Research
• Gender and LGBTQ+ Rights
• Social Memory and Reconciliation