Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminar 5: Football and Nation-building in the Colombian Peace Process

In this seminar, Pete Watson will present findings from his forthcoming book, “The Only Thing that Unites Us: Football and Nation-building During the Presidency of Juan Manuel Santos” (forthcoming book, Liverpool University Press).

Webinar: Dis/information and Peace

In this webinar, our expert panel will consider how disinformation threatens peace and peacemaking efforts around the world

Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminar 4. Book Launch: Cowards Don’t Make History

Embrace Dialogue Academia 4. Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia: Lessons for Peacebuilding
Author: Prof. Joanne Rappaport, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University

The “No” Won, Colombia Lost: Four Years Since the Signing of the Peace Agreement

Four years after the signing of that agreement, the Political Studies and International Relations Institute (IEPRI) of the National University of Colombia, and Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD) invite you to this dialogue and book launch of ‘The “No” Won, Colombia Lost: Four Years Since the Signing of the Peace Agreement’.

Exhuming the Truth: Forensic Experts and Their Contribution in the JEP

We will address the scope, needs and challenges of the JEP’s Forensic Team as a central element of peacebuilding in Colombia.

Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminar 3: Coca and Capitalism in Cauca

In this talk, Dr. Anthony Dest analyzes a relatively new phenomenon in northern Cauca: the massive expansion of coca cultivations.

Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminar 2: Forensic Knowledge and Transitional Justice

Join us for the second session of the Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminar to discuss forensic knowledge and its relation with victims rights.

The journeys of Martha Castro: Writing, drawing and listening as a means of encounter

A new series of dialogues entitled ‘Alternative possible encounters: seeing through the eyes of relatives of those who have been forcibly disappeared’, organised by our team working on the Unit for the Search of Disappeared People (UBPD).
In this first dialogue, we will speak with Martha Castro, about her experience dealing with the forced disappearance of her son, Andres Castro. We will reflect on the importance of local knowledge and symbolic strategies undertaken by the relatives of disappeared persons for society and institutions in Colombia.

Los sabores: una puerta al recuerdo

Sabores, colores, texturas… Acompáñenos a explorar la comida como un elemento fundamental de la identidad colombiana.

Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminar 1: Peace and Rural Development in Colombia

In this new series of Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminars (EDAS), co-hosted by Embrace Dialogue and Merton College, University of Oxford, we bring together presentations of finished academic research with discussions to draw out the implications of this work for the current challenges of peacebuilding in Colombia.

Inaugural Seminar and Book Launch: ‘Peace and Rural Development in Colombia: The Window for Distributive Change in Negotiated Transitions’ (Routledge, 2020), by Andrés García Trujillo.