Advisory (1976 - 2012)

Long-term advisor of the (Dutch) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Home and Kingdom Affairs, the Government of the former Netherlands Antilles, the two (Dutch) labour confederations CNV and FNV, and various development NGOs in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Journals

Member of the Board/Consultative Committes of several FLACSO (Facultad LatinoAmericana de Ciencias Sociales) journals

Present Academic Advisory

Member of the International Advisory Group of the Research Network on the Revolutionary New Left in Latin America, Europe and the United States (1960 – 1990) at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, November 2013 - present

Member of the International Cooperation Partner Group of the Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America Freie Universität Berlin, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Berlin, Institute of Latin American Studies of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies Hamburg, Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik Bonn und Berlin), January 2010 – present

Member of the Grupo de Investigación en Seguridad y Defensa (GISDE), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, November 2009 – present

Member of the Red de Seguridad y Defensa de America Latina (RESDAL), January 2009 - present