Daniel Oliva Martínez
Professor Daniel Oliva Martínez
Prof. Dr. J. Daniel Oliva Martínez
Director of the Chair on Sustainability, Inclusion, Diversity and Human Rights; Deputy Director of the Master in International Solidarity Action and Social Inclusion; Co-Director of the Expert Degree in Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and International Cooperation; Director of the University Group on Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples and Head of the Qualitative Studies Group of the Institute of International and European Studies ‘Francisco de Vitoria’ of the University Carlos III of Madrid. He has also been deputy director of the Department of International Law, Ecclesiastical Law and Philosophy of Law,
He is a jurist and anthropologist. His main lines of research (among others) are related to the right to development and the international legal regime of cooperation, humanitarian action, sustainability and civil protection; international conflicts and the regime of the use of force; the work of international organisations; the protection of human rights at the universal and regional levels; the status of international protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and other groups in situations of vulnerability, as well as the normative and institutional framework for the protection of diversity.
He has obtained the Extraordinary Degree Award and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. He has been a lecturer in Public International Law and International Relations at the Carlos III University of Madrid since 1998, where he has taught all the subjects in his area of knowledge at the Getafe, Colmenarejo and Aranjuez campuses and supervised numerous theses, dissertations, master's theses and degree dissertations. He has been one of the main researchers at the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos del Museo de América in Madrid, legal advisor to the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) and has been in charge of the technical direction of the presidency of the Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe (FILAC) in the city of La Paz (Bolivia). In 2021 he was awarded the Order of the Fifth Sun, the highest international recognition for people who have been significant in the defence of the rights and cultures of indigenous peoples. More recently, he has been appointed independent expert of the Cooperation Council of the General State Administration, at the proposal of the CRUE and the Federation of Human Rights Associations.
He is the author of numerous publications, including fourteen monographs and more than 70 articles in scientific journals and book chapters in prestigious publishing houses. He has also coordinated twelve collective books. He also has extensive international experience as a postgraduate lecturer in numerous academic centres in Europe, Latin America and the United States, as well as in the management of technical advisory and consultancy services for public administrations, foundations, NGOs, companies and international organisations. Among the latter, the World Bank, the Multilateral Investment Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, UNESCO, FILAC and the International Labour Organisation,
His interdisciplinary research approach is influenced by the Three-Dimensional Theory of Law, the European Critical Sociology of Law, Legal Pluralism and Latin American Legal Criticism as well as by the Critical Legal Studies movement in the United States.
Throughout his academic career he has carried out different research stays at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad Cuenca del Plata (Argentina), at the Institutes of Legal and Anthropological Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, at the headquarters of the United Nations (Geneva) and the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (La Paz), at the Higher Institute of Social and Political Studies of the Technical University of Lisbon and at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Notre Dame (United States). He is also a researcher at the Centro de Estudios de Iberoamérica of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and a member of two research groups at the Universidad Carlos III, recognised by the Vice-Rectorate for Research.
He was also a member of the Spanish Seminar for Indigenist Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a member of several editorial committees. He is an expert reviewer and evaluator of the Revista Colombiana Derecho del Estado, published by the Universidad del Externado in Colombia; he was correspondent in Spain of the Mexican Journal, from its beginnings, ‘Amerística’ and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Electrónica Iberoamericana of the Instituto Francisco de Vitoria and the Centro de Estudios de Iberoamérica, as well as evaluator of the books of the UNED publishing house, the publishing house of the Universidad de Valladolid and the Universidad Pontificia de Perú.
He has also worked as an evaluator of projects, Master's theses and dissertations and as an organiser of seminars and meetings on gender studies and for the promotion of equality between men and women in the framework of the calls of the Vice-rectorate for Social Responsibility and Equality of the University Carlos III of Madrid.
He has extensive experience as an evaluator of cooperation programmes and projects and was a member of the evaluation team for 25 years of Spanish cooperation with indigenous peoples (AECID). He was also a member of the Development Cooperation Council of the Carlos III University of Madrid, a member of the organising committees of the UC3M Solidarity Week, founder of the Observatory on the activities of Spanish organisations in the indigenous world (OAOEMI) and a regular member of the jury of the Bartolomé de las Casas Prize, organised since 1991 by the State Secretariat for Cooperation and Casa de América.
She is a member of the Academic Council of the Pre-Competitive Unit: Human Rights, Diversity and Technologies and for two terms has been a member of the Commission on Normativity and Human Rights of the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Since 2023 he has been in charge of directing the course on the rights and culture of Afro-descendant communities (AECID-UC3M agreement) and is the director of the values education programme ‘Mundo Convive’ focused on the transfer of knowledge through the training of trainers and activities with secondary school students on human rights, culture of peace, tolerance and pluralism. Since the 23/24 academic year, he has been the coordinator of the module ‘Climate change and biodiversity: causes and impacts’ in the Master's Degree in Integrated Environmental Protection at the Carlos III University of Madrid, taught by the University Centre of the Civil Guard in collaboration with SEPRONA.
He is also an advisor on international cooperation, diversity and inclusion at a global level and collaborates with organisations and entities in Latin America, the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia.