Join us to think and reflect together about identity and migration with Malena (designer), Guido (music) and Mariana (performer), creatives of the show ‘The Two of Us’ at the Burton Taylor Studio.
El 7 de octubre de 2021, el Centro de Religión, Reconciliación y Paz de la Universidad de Winchester, el Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y Rodeemos el Diálogo organizaron un panel público seguido por un conversatorio con especialistas sobre Colombia afiliados a instituciones en varios países del […]
Embrace Dialogue interviewed four members of (CONELAEC), in order to understand and shed light on the problems that affect this population.
For FARC peace signatories, exercising the right to express disagreement and participating in non-violent, democratic protests are essential steps towards reincorporation into political life.
Growing public and economic insecurity has seen the death of more than 250 ex-combatants (or peace signatories, as former members of this guerrilla refer to themselves), and many more of them forcibly displaced. This is compounded by a lack of progress in the implementation of the National Reincorporation Policy (Conpes 3931), and more generally of the Framework for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement. This, and other reasons, led more than 2000 peace signatories to march from various territories in Colombia to the capital Bogotá, to deliver their proposals to the President. This snapshot analyses in more detail their proposals.
On the 9th February, the Rodeemos el Diálogo team that is following an eventual negotiation between the Colombian government and the ELN held a public dialogue with Socorro Ramírez, emeritus professor in the Institute for International Relations and Political Studies at the National University of Colombia, and Luis Eduardo Celis, an analyst of the armed conflict, about the perspectives for peace with the National Liberation Army (ELN in Spanish). In view of this dialogue, and given that this year represents the 30th anniversary of the first attempt at negotiating with the ELN, that the critical humanitarian situation in the territories where the ELN is present, and that the pandemic aggravates this situation further still, we consider that a peace process is now more urgent than ever.
In the early days of February, Colombia witnessed an exchange of letters that is no less than a cry to save the country’s peace. The unprecedented aspect of this correspondence is that it has been carried on by the two people responsible for opening the door to the negotiations, and following the path during the four years necessary to reach the signing of the Agreement: Rodrigo Londoño of the FARC – now the ‘Comunes’ party – and former-President Juan Manuel Santos.
2021 is a critical year for the JEP. According to experts in peace processes, the first five years after a peace accord are the most decisive ones, because a conflict is more likely to reignite during that period. With the 2016 Peace Agreement entering its fifth year of implementation, it is not only the JEP’s decisions that are important in 2021, but also the political, institutional, and social context surrounding the agreement. This snapshot sets out some of the key elements that will define the work of the JEP this year.
With Order No. 90 of 2020, the Chamber for the Recognition of Truth, Responsibility and Determination of Conduct (SRVR) of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) rejected Salvatore Mancuso’s petition to be admitted. In 1997, Salvatore Mancuso helped form the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), an illegal organisation that, under his command, repeatedly committed severe human rights violations in seven departments of the Caribbean and in the region of Catatumbo.
As 2020 draws to a close, so too does the Truth Commission’s second year in operation. This snapshot provides a brief overview of the commission’s work to date and points to some of the challenges that might arise in its upcoming final year of work. A more detailed look ahead to 2021 will be tackled in the next snapshot.
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