Who we are
We start from a conviction: disagreement is a condition of democratic life, and what matters is how we go through it. When differences stop being discussed as positions and are lived as clashes between identities, our ability to learn from those who think differently, and to achieve high-quality, stable laws and public policies, is weakened. From Buenos Aires and Barcelona, Proyecto Disonante works on that fragility to improve the quality of dissent and, as far as possible, reach more rational solutions.
Hernán Charosky
Sociologist and lawyer
Argentina
Hernán is a sociologist and lawyer (UBA), and holds a Master’s in Public Policy (George Washington University / Fulbright Fellow, Global Leaders Fellow). From the start of his career he has promoted participation and deliberation as key practices for democratic consolidation, and in each of the positions he held he led pluralist and participatory dialogue processes. He currently coordinates the Dialogando Buenos Aires program.
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He was executive director of Poder Ciudadano (local chapter of Transparency International), advisor to the Integrity Office of the Inter-American Development Bank, and leader of the Argentina Debate initiative. Among his most relevant experiences, he promoted pluralist discussion in the drafting of the Freedom of Information Law and the Electoral Code of the City of Buenos Aires, led the civil society coalition that achieved Argentina’s first presidential debates in 2015, and promoted the use of public information access for the control of social protection spending by its own beneficiaries.
He is a professor at the Universidad de Palermo and previously at Universidad Austral, Universidad de San Andrés and the University of Buenos Aires. He has been a consultant in Central and South America and Africa on transparency, anti-corruption, multiparty cooperation and citizen participation, for the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the National Endowment for Democracy and the National Democratic Institute, among others.
Organizations
Carolina Fernández Blanco
Doctor in Law · Lawyer
Spain
Carolina holds a PhD from the Universitat de Girona, a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, and an LL.M. from Columbia University (New York). Her work focuses on legislative quality, deliberation and the rule of law. She has taught courses and conducted training on rational legislation, parliamentary deliberation and evidence-based public policy for legislators and officials from various Latin American countries. She is currently a researcher at the Chair of Legal Culture at the Universitat de Girona and a member of the research projects Biases in the production and application of law and Social Epistemology and Law.
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She was a postdoctoral researcher at the same institution and coordinated the official Master’s program in Tort Law between 2021 and 2026. She has extensive teaching experience at the University of Buenos Aires and the Universitat de Girona, and currently teaches in the Master’s in Tort Law, the Master’s in Foundations of Civil Liability, and the Master in Global Rule of Law & Constitutional Democracy (Genova and Girona).
She practiced law in Buenos Aires and worked at human rights organizations. She also acts as a legal consultant and litigator before the Inter-American System and the European Court of Human Rights.
Books
- Eficacia, efectividad y entramado normativo · Marcial Pons, 2026 (open access)
- Errores en la creación y aplicación del derecho · co-editor with F. Carbonell · Marcial Pons, 2026 (open access)
- La Seguridad Jurídica para el Desarrollo Humano: desafíos en Iberoamérica · co-author · Marcial Pons, 2025
- Derecho y Pobreza · co-editor with E. Pereira Fredes · 2021
- Seguridad jurídica, pobreza y corrupción · co-editor with J. Ferrer · 2018
- Seguridad jurídica y democracia en Iberoamérica · co-editor with J. Ferrer and C. Cruz · 2015
- Derecho y Desarrollo. Una visión desde América Latina y el Caribe · Editores del Puerto, 2013
A network of professionals for the most diverse realities
Throughout our experience we have worked with professionals from various fields such as lawyers, communications specialists, sociologists and political scientists, among others, throughout the Latin American region, the United States, Africa and Europe. Our network includes specialists who have participated in all kinds of political and social scenarios, facilitating workshops, designing and evaluating policies and conducting academic research.
For each project and for each field intervention, Proyecto Disonante has a network of professionals prepared for the most diverse realities.
Plural networks
Experiences that manage to improve a difficult conversation tend to stay locked in the place where they happened. We want to build a network that puts them into circulation: identifying good practices of dialogue and deliberation in different contexts, turning them into tools that others can adapt, and widening their reach through those who use them and those who study them.
That is why the network brings together people who work on the ground, such as facilitators, public officials, legislators and civil society organizations, with universities and think tanks that research polarization, deliberation and the quality of public decisions.
Do you want to join the network?
We are interested in learning about your concerns and proposals.