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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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Youth, Education and Reconciliation in Colombia

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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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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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Urban Youth and School Life

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In this seminar Diego Nieto presents his PhD thesis on the disjuncture between young people’s experiences of war and their school curricula

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Children and adolescents talk to the Truth Commission

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In this snapshot we explore how Colombia’s Truth Commission (TC) is working with children and young people to sow the seeds for an inclusive peace.

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