Research

Publications

  • Holmes, Jennifer S., Agustin Palao, Mercedez Callenes, Neil Ortiz Silva, and Alvaro Cardenas. "Attacking the grid: Lessons from a guerrilla conflict and efforts for peace in Colombia: 1990–2018." International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection 42 (2023): 100621.
  • Mendizabal, Agustin Palao, Jennifer S. Holmes, Mercedez Callenes, Neil Ortiz, and Alvaro Cardenas. "Using hotspot analysis to prioritize security efforts in Colombian critical infrastructure, a focus on the power grid." Security Journal 35, no. 3 (2022): 801-822.
  • Callenes, Mercedez. Gender Disparities in Decision Making in Agriculture: A Case Study of Small Producers in Peru. PhD diss., University of Texas at Dallas, 2021. ProQuest. Accessed March 25, 2026.
  • Mendizabal, Agustin Palao, Jennifer S. Holmes, Neil Ortiz, Mercedez Callenes, and Alvaro Cardenas. "A hotspot analysis of critical hydrocarbons infrastructure in Colombia: ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) and FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) attacks on Colombian pipelines." Applied Geography 126 (2021): 102376.
  • Holmes, Jennifer S., Agustin Palao Mendizabal, David Saucedo De La Fuente, Mercedez Callenes, and Álvaro Cárdenas. "Paramilitary violence in Colombia: A multilevel negative binomial analysis." Defence and Peace Economics 32, no. 2 (2021): 193-219.
  • Palao‐Mendizabal, Agustin, Jennifer S. Holmes, Mercedez Callenes, and Álvaro Cardenas. "Crossing thresholds: The use of spatial analysis to identify intensification of the Colombian conflict." Conflict Resolution Quarterly 37, no. 2 (2019): 177-187.
  • Callenes, Mercedez. The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Consumption of Rural Households in Peru. PhD diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014.
  • Gitter, Seth R., Jeremy G. Weber, Bradford L. Barham, Mercedez Callenes, and Jessa Lewis Valentine. "Fair trade-organic coffee cooperatives, migration, and secondary schooling in Southern Mexico." Journal of Development Studies 48, no. 3 (2012): 445-463.
  • Barham, Bradford L., Mercedez Callenes, Seth Gitter, Jessa Lewis, and Jeremy Weber. "Fair trade/organic coffee, rural livelihoods, and the agrarian question: Southern Mexican coffee families in transition." World Development 39, no. 1 (2011): 134-145.

Conferences

  • Civil Protests as a Mean to Defuse or Escalate Conflict? Evidence from Colombia Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Vancouver - Canada, 2023.
  • Using hot spot analysis to prioritize security efforts in Colombian critical infrastructure, a focus on the power grid 23rd Latin American Social and Public Policy (LASPP) Conference at the University of Pittsburgh, 2019.
  • The Pacification Process and the Dynamics of Violence in Colombia. A Spatio-temporal Approach “New Security Challenges” Conference at the School of International Humanitarian Law UP, 2018.
  • Paramilitary Violence in Colombia: A Multilevel Negative Binomial Analysis 22nd Latin American Social and Public Policy (LASPP) Conference at the University of Pittsburgh, 2018.