March 06 / 2020 The lecture was hosted by UCL Institute of the Americas, in partnership with the LSE Latin American and Caribbean Centre and Embrace Dialogue (Rodeemos el Diálogo). Before becoming the chief prosecutor of the JEP, Mr Álvarez worked for 25 years in the Office of the General Prosecutor of Colombia, investigating cases […]
March 06 / 2020 On February 3rd, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) announced they were suspending the membership of the Colombia’s National Centre of Historical Memory (CNMH), the main entity in charge of the preservation and construction of historical memory about the armed conflict in Colombia. Elizabeth Silkes, the head of the […]
March 04 / 2020 Embrace Dialogue is conscious of the crucial role the US government has played in the Colombian peace process. We celebrate the support the US has contributed to help mitigate the humanitarian crisis of Venezuelan migrants fleeing to Colombia, and call on other countries to complement this support. We note with concern, […]
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Despite the 2016 peace agreement, hundreds of other activists; including environmental campaigners, women’s leaders and human rights defenders have been murdered in recent years. British trade unions have long supported Colombian civil society in its struggle for human rights, workers’ rights, peace and social justice.
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Bringing together contrasting narratives from a range of Colombian voices, Stardust tells the story of the chain of lives and deaths that turns a coca leaf, sacred to indigenous communities in Latin America, into a line of coke on a mirror in the western world.
The Colombian Truth Commission (Comisión de Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, Convivencia y No Repetición) was set up as part of the peace process between the Colombian Government and the FARC guerrilla in 2016. The Truth Commission seeks to uncover the truth surrounding human rights violations and abuses which were carried out during decades of internal conflict.
Two and a half years after the reincorporation of former FARC-EP members started in the Territorial Spaces of Territorial and Reincorporation (TSTRs), there are worrying signs that require the implementation of stronger security measures.
The Chamber for the Recognition of Truth of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) decided to open a case for the Urabá region, to investigate the crimes committed in the framework of the armed conflict between 1986 and 2016. The macro-case comprises 10 municipalities: 6 of them located in Antioquia (Turbo, Apartadó, Carepa, Chigorodó, Mutatá and Dabeiba) and 4 of them in Chocó (Carmen del Darién, Riosucio, Unguía and Acandí).
In this snapshot, we discuss the fourth Encuentro por la Verdad which focused on the experiences of rural farmers, in an effort to build bridges between rural and urban Colombia.
British and Colombian universities met at Institute of the Americas, University College London, in the eighth Embrace Dialogue Academia seminar. The discussion centred on the participation of third parties in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).
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