Javier Osorio

Javier Osorio is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona's School of Government and Public Policy. His research focuses on the micro-foundations and dynamics of political and criminal violence in Latin America, employing quantitative methods such as natural language processing, GIS, and big data analytics. He has received awards from the UNODC and MPSA, and his work appears in leading journals like the Journal of Peace Research.

Dr. Osorio holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame (2013) and previously taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He leads the Academy for Security Analysis, funded by USAID, and collaborates with the NSF and DoD’s Minerva Initiative. His research projects include supervised event coding for conflict analysis and randomized controlled trials in Central America.

His key contributions span conflict language models (e.g., ConfliBERT), criminal violence classification, and multilingual event coding frameworks. He has advised interventions in El Salvador and Nicaragua, emphasizing data-driven approaches to security challenges.