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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.
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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?
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.
Textile Making, Reincorporation and Reconciliation in Colombia
We invite you to the eleventh Critical Dialogue on Reconciliation. We will think together about the journey towards reconciliation of ex-FARC members through the lenses of a participatory textile making research project.
Reincorporating Vulnerable Populations: The Importance of a Differential Approach
Embrace Dialogue interviewed four members of (CONELAEC), in order to understand and shed light on the problems that affect this population.
Mass Pilgrimage in Support of Life and Peace
On 21 October 2020, around two thousand FARC ex-combatants from across the country joined a mass demonstration to meet with the national government and demand both the implementation of security measures to safeguard life and the fulfilment of the peace agreement. The starting point of the demonstration, named Peregrinación por la Vida y por la Paz (Pilgrimage for Life and Peace), was the municipality of Mesetas in the department of Meta – the resting place of former FARC combatant Jesús Monroy Ayala, who was killed on 16 October 2020.
Corporeconciliation and the Challenges of Reincorporation
This Snapshot brings together the challenges of political reincorporation related to the FARC party, taking into account the creation of new groups that seek to represent the interest of some former members of the FARC-EP guerrilla group.
FARC’s Peace Signatories – Challenges and Creative Solutions to COVID-19
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.
Education as a Strategy for Reincorporation
Access to education for ex-guerrillas and their families, who are in the process of reincorporation, is key for the promotion of social justice and equality in Colombia. This snapshot explores the progress and challenges of education in some of the areas of reincorporation where former members of the FARC guerrilla have decided to rebuild their lives with their families.
The Impact of COVID-19 in Reincorporation
This snapshot explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the process of reincorporation. On 6 March 2020, Colombia reported its first case of COVID-19 coronavirus within what has since been declared a global pandemic. The crisis has exacerbated existing inequalities and needs, and the preventative measures applied, including curfews, lockdowns and self-isolation, have been felt across all corners of the country. The second reincorporation snapshot discussed the economic and security challenges that need to be tackled in 2020. The current crisis emphasises the need for urgent attention towards these same issues but also shows new opportunities and examples of co-responsibility and solidarity by FARC ex-combatants.