FOLCO ZAFFALON

PhD Student

PhD program:: XLII
email: folco.zaffalon@uniroma1.it





Research: The Truth that Repairs. Paths of public truth and restorative justice in collective crimes with political institutional implications: the Bologna Massacre in dialogue with the Colombian experience of transitional and restorative justice.

Ph.D. candidate in Peace Studies, Curriculum 9 "Restorative Justice, Transitional Justice and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation". His research focuses, in Italy, on the relationship between public truth and restorative justice in cases of collective violence with political and institutional implications, in dialogue with the experience of Colombia, where he lived and worked between 2013 and 2025, contributing to processes of justice, truth and reparation for victims. He was a researcher and consultant at the Truth Commission, where he coordinated a volume of the Final Report, the collaboration with the National Security Archive for the research and publication of declassified U.S. documents, and the project "Traces of Disappearance" (Huellas de desaparición), carried out with Forensic Architecture; on this last experience he has co-authored a chapter with Fernanda Barbosa in the book “Transitional Justice Archives” (Routledge, 2025). He was subsequently a researcher at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), working on Cases 06 (Unión Patriótica) and 08 (State-paramilitary relations). He holds a bachelor's degree in International and Diplomatic Sciences and a master's degree in Mass Media and Politics from the University of Bologna (Forlì campus), and a master's degree in the Defence of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law from the University of Santo Tomás (Bogotá).

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