Julia Buxton

Biography

Julia Buxton is Professor of Comparative Politics at the School of Public Policy and Senior Research Associate at the Global Drug Policy Observatory, Swansea University. She has previously served as department head in the British university system, taught at Kingston University and the London School of Economics and led the Venezuela program at Georgetown University in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Julia directed the British Council INSPIRE three year capacity building partnership with Fatima Jinnah Women University in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Program Using Democracy for Peace and currently convenes the OSF Global Drug Policy Program professional development course on drug policy. Buxton is a specialist on Latin America and an expert on Venezuela, receiving her PhD from the London School of Economics, where she also studied for her MA (Distinction) in Comparative Politics. She has thematic expertise on democratisation and transition processes, post conflict recovery (SSR: Security Sector Reform; DDR: Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration) and conflict analysis, including conflict sensitive design and policy implementation, as well as gender and gender sensitive design. Her work in this area is based on consultancy experience with USAID, Sida (Sweden), Foreign Ministry of Finland, UK Department for International Development and USAID.

Research Interest

Designing Interventions to Respond to Conflict and Violence, Policy Analysis, Security in the Global South: Latin America case study.