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Compassionate Reasoning and Reconciliation

We are inviting you to the 18th Critical Dialogue on Reconciliation, where we’ll be exploring the place of compassionate reasoning in reconciliation processes.

Ten Years of Peace Processes in Colombia

In this policy brief Andrei Gomez-Suarez and Alejandro Posada Tellez summarise the main lessons of ten years of peace process in Colombia.

Compassion, Conflict and Reconciliation

We invite you to the 15th Critical Dialogue on Reconciliation, where we’ll be thinking together about the role of compassion in conflict and reconciliation.

Children and Youth: Lessons from the Colombian Truth Commission

The LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre (LACC), Children Change Colombia, Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD) and Winchester’s Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace invite you to a roundtable discussion with Paola Forero Acosta, Colombian Human Rights expert who wrote the children and young people chapter of the Colombian Truth Commission Report, and Karen Arteaga Garzón, director of Rodeemos el Diálogo Colombia, an organisation that supported the Colombian Truth Commission’s pedagogy team and Generation V+ (the youth initiative seeking to protect the legacy of the Truth Commission). 

Challenges and Prospects for “Total Peace” in Colombia

This panel is the first event in the UK to take stock of the current state of the peace process(es) in Colombia, the “total peace” policy of President Gustavo Petro, and the challenges and opportunities of the current moment.

On the verge of the start of the peace process between the FARC-EP dissidents and the Colombian government

The negotiated solution to the armed rebellion of the FARC-EP underwent at least three attempts and almost half a century of confrontations to achieve the Final Agreement to End the Armed Conflict and Build of a Stable and Lasting Peace in November 2016.

Youth, Education and Reconciliation in Colombia

We invite you to the fourteenth Critical Dialogue on Reconciliation, where we’ll be thinking together about the lessons for reconciliation when working with youth and teachers in Colombia.

Metaphor and Reconciliation

We invite you to the thirteenth Critical Dialogue on Reconciliation, where we’ll be thinking together about the relationship between metaphor and reconciliation. What is it? And why does it matter?

Petro’s Total Peace: A Paradigm Shift in Peacebuilding

Petro’s concept of “total peace” goes beyond negotiations with illegal armed groups. Andrei Gómez-Suárez and Margarita Ermini* argue that the new policy signals a paradigm shift in peacebuilding.

Neuroscience and Reconciliation

We invite you to the twelfth Critical Dialogue on Reconciliation. We will think together about the new opportunities that neuroscience brings for reconciliation research and practice.