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

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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.

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The Challenges of Transitional Justice from an Afro-Colombian Perspective

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Between August and September 2020, the Transitional Justice team of ReD organised two online dialogues that addressed the perspectives of Afro-Colombian social leaders on transitional justice. We discussed the three regional cases currently under the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP): Case 002 focused on Nariño, Case 004 on Urabá, and Case 005 on Cauca and Valle del Cauca; and what the leaders considered to be the JEP’s greatest challenges. This snapshot gathers some of the reflections, concerns, and proposals that arose during those events.

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The State of Implementation of the Colombian Peace Agreement

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On 9 July 2020, Embrace Dialogue and the Kroc Institute held a public dialogue to discuss ‘The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies’ Fourth Report on the state of implementation of the 2016 Final Peace Accord’, examining the period December 2018- November 2019.

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FARC’s Peace Signatories – Challenges and Creative Solutions to COVID-19

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This snapshot summarises the highlights of our event, “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Reincorporation of the FARC in Colombia”. We heard from FARC ex-combatants from the formerly named Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation (ETCRs in Spanish), and Laura Villa, representative for the FARC in the National Reincorporation Council (CNR), who discussed the challenges they faced before and during the pandemic, and how they are providing creative solutions to this global crisis from their territories.

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Reparations Policy for Victims of the Armed Conflict in Colombia

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With Law 1448 of 2011, known as the Victims and Land Restitution Law, and presidential decrees 4633, 4634, and 4635 that followed, the Colombian state created a system of reparations (The Victims Unit, Land Restitution Tribunals, administrative processes, etc.) for victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. This is considered to be the most ambitious reparations programme in the world, as it includes humanitarian assistance measures for victims, contemplates every form of reparation (restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-recurrence), while aiming to provide reparations for more than 8 million victims. 

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