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Children and Youth: Lessons from the Colombian Truth Commission

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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). 

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No Future without Truth?

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We invite you to the tenth Critical Dialogue on Reconciliation. We will think together about the levels, outcomes, drivers, and the scaffolding necessary for successful reconciliation.

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Rodrigo Londoño and Salvatore Mancuso admit responsibility in front of the Truth Commission

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The Truth Commission held a meeting for admitting of responsibility, in which the former AUC paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso and the former commander of the FARC-EP Rodrigo Londoño gave testimonies.

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55 Scholars of 40 Universities Around the World are Hopeful that Colombia’s Constitutional Court will Extend the Mandate of the Truth Commission

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As international scholars conducting research in Colombia, we value the contribution of the Truth Commission to end the armed conflict and build a lasting peace. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 the Truth Commission has not been able to fully carry out its mandate.

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The Pedagogical Proposal of the Truth Commission

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In the two and half years since the Colombian Truth Commission began its mandate, it has developed a pedagogical strategy for generating cultural and educational initiatives to engage the public with its final report. This strategy also seeks to promote cultural and social transformations that contribute to non-repetition of the conflict, taking into account territorial, ethnic, and gender approaches. This snapshot sets out the Truth Commission’s pedagogical commitment and Embrace Dialogue’s (ReD) collaboration in this area.

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The Commission’s Final Year

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The Truth Commission is entering its final year of activity, during which it must assume the difficult task of producing a final report that incorporates the root causes of the conflict, the principal victimisers, and the invisible stories of resilience and resistance within communities of survivors. There are significant challenges on many fronts. On the one hand, there is a methodological and editorial challenge: which information should be included in the report, and what will remain excluded? Then, there is a political issue centred around how the Commission will deal with the inevitable attacks from particular political sectors that appear in the report’s content.

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The Truth Commission: 2 Years On

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As 2020 draws to a close, so too does the Truth Commission’s second year in operation. This snapshot provides a brief overview of the commission’s work to date and points to some of the challenges that might arise in its upcoming final year of work. A more detailed look ahead to 2021 will be tackled in the next snapshot.

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New Commissioner for the Colombian Truth Commission (CEV)

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Rodeemos el Diálogo (Embrace Dialogue) celebrates the appointment of Leyner Palacios as the new commissioner for the Colombian Truth Commission (CEV). His reputation as a social leader and defender of the rights of victims from el Chocó makes him ideal for the role. His profile encompasses all of the requirements established by the Commission for the appointment of a new commissioner. For the Commission, it is fundamental to include an individual with experience in defending human rights, that has been in proximity to social processes as well as the communities of the Pacific, and that has an understanding of the dynamics of the violence present in Colombia. Leyner meets all of these requirements.

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Naming the Unspeakable. Art and the Truth Commission

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The Truth Commission has begun a series of interviews called Naming the Unspeakable with different Colombian artists, all of whom have made the reflection of the armed conflict integral to their work. To date, six meetings have been held to discuss the role of art as a form of recognition and a means to understand the armed conflict. These meetings take as a starting point, the fundamental role of art in Colombia as a means to resist and witness the horrors lived amid violence. The Commission also recognises that art, through its many languages, can delve into the depths of the human condition.

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The Truth Commission and the Colombian Armed Forces

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One of the most commonly fraught relationships in a country’s political transition is the relationship between a Truth Commission and the Armed Forces. In Argentina, the Armed Forces denied the findings of the Never Again report and promoted their own independent version of what happened during the dictatorship. In Peru, the Army spoke out firmly against the Truth Commission’s final report, suggesting it was favouring the “terrorists” and in Guatemala, the Armed Forces consistently opposed the Truth Commission from the beginning of its mandate to the very end.

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