April 13 / 2020 Embrace Dialogue endorses the selection of Alejandro Castillejo as the new Truth Commissioner in Colombia. The decision taken by the existing 10 commissioners was part of an inclusive, public and pluralist process to replace the commissioner who sadly passed away in October 2019, and involved individuals with a wealth of experience. […]
April 09 / 2020 Embrace Dialogue, as an organisation born from civil society to support the negotiated exit from armed conflict and encourage the construction of peace through dialogue, finds it unacceptable that the numbers of victims in Colombia continues to rise. We join with others in commemorating the National Day of Memory and Solidarity […]
April 07 / 2020 ReD member Gwen Burnyeat interviewed award-winning Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez for Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). In this interview, they discussed the Colombian peace process, the challenges of speaking truth in a “post-truth” era, fiction, and much more. Read the complete interview here. “I try to contribute in a more […]
April 02 / 2020 On 29 March 2020, Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace, Miguel Ceballos, invested Carlos Velandia and Francisco Galán -former commanders of the National Liberation Army (ELN) insurgency- as Peace Facilitators (Gestores de Paz) This was a reversal of an earlier decision taken by the Duque administration in January 2019, which withdrew this […]
March 22 / 2020 For this time of uncertainty, we in Embrace Dialogue offer our principles of honesty, generosity, respect, solidarity, self-criticism and co-responsibility. We commit to these values in our work promoting dialogue for peace-building, and also in contemplating how we connect with the world around us. These principles suggest insight as to how […]
March 18 / 2020 In the first week of March 2020, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights launched the report made by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Michel Forst, after his 2019 visit to Colombia to investigate the current human rights situation in the country. This report has been subject […]
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, […]
February 04 / 2020 Since December 2016, 185 FARC-EP ex-combatants have been killed and 29 assassination attempts have occurred. In January 2020 alone, five murders and two assassination attempts were reported. The alarming levels of insecurity around Ituango’s Reincorporation Zone in Antioquia have led 60 FARC ex-combatants and their families to take the decision to […]
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