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Bringing together the experiences and insights of more than thirty experienced and emerging authors, human rights activists, and peace practitioners from Colombia and abroad, Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War documents and analyzes the vast array of peace initiatives that have emerged in Colombia in recent years.
El 7 de agosto de 2010, Juan Manuel Santos, Ministro de Defensa durante el gobierno saliente del Presidente Álvaro Uribe, fue investido como nuevo presidente de Colombia. Los temas de paz estuvieron en gran medida ausentes del debate público durante la campaña presidencial, pero emergieron inesperadamente en las últimas semanas de mandato del Presidente Uribe.
Latest from USIP on Colombia
- September 11, 2012 | Publication
The Colombian government announced that it will begin peace negotiations with the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), signaling a potential end to the hemisphere’s longest-running armed conflict. USIP’s Virginia Bouvier examines the steps ahead.
- September 5, 2012 | Publication
With the recent announcement that the Colombian government is going to begin formal peace talks with the FARC this coming October, USIP's Virginia Bouvier reflects on USIP's contribution to the country's pathway to peace.
- September 4, 2012 | Publication
Raymond Gilpin, USIP's Center for Sustainable Economies director, discusses how a USIP project to analyze the vulnerability of energy infrastructure in fragile, resource-rich countries could inform policy-making and strengthen efforts to secure peace.
- September 4, 2012 | In the Field
USIP’s Virginia Bouvier and Susan Hayward recently traveled to Colombia in order to strengthen the connection between religion, women and peace. This "In the Field" is an account of their trip.
USIP Goals in Colombia
The United States Institute of Peace seeks to support a non-violent transformation of the conflict in Colombia. In the absence of national peace processes, the USIP is supporting initiatives to help create an environment propitious for a political, negotiated solution. The Institute seeks to:
- Support policy-relevant research and analysis of Colombia’s internal armed conflict and initiatives to prevent, manage and transform conflict;
- Support innovative projects and processes that strengthen civil society organizations' capacities to promote an agenda for human rights, peace, democratic governance, and sustainable development;
- Enhance collective efforts to secure truth, justice, reparations, social reconstruction, reconciliation, and processes of historical memory, particularly among groups victimized by the war, discrimination, and social and economic exclusion;
- Encourage the analysis and articulation of a gender perspective in every phase of conflict prevention, management, peacemaking, peace-building, reconciliation, and reintegration.
Work & Analysis
Video | July 2012
"Inside Story Americas, July 18, 2012"
Virginia M. Bouvier joined the Al Jazeera program to discuss Colombia's war-torn Cauca region, where indigenous people tired of conflict recently demanded that both the military and armed rebels leave the area to ensure peace.
In the Field | November 2011
Building Community in the Search for Justice: A Visit to Colombia's City of Women
USIP's Virginia M. Bouvier reflects on her 2011 visit to Colombia's City of Women, a settlement for people displaced by violence. | Read more
Grant Highlight by Cassandra Atlas and Virginia M. Bouvier | July 2011
Women as Peacebuilders: A Regional Case Study in Colombia
USIP is supporting a research project being undertaken by Winifred Tate, an anthropologist and former USIP Peace Scholar, to document and analyze the role of women in local community-based conflict resolution efforts in the Putumayo department of Colombia. | Read more
Grant Highlight by Cassandra Atlas and Virginia M. Bouvier | July 2011
USIP supported the gender unit of the Historical Memory Group (HMG) to develop a unique interdisciplinary and participatory methodology to produce the first official report of the HMG Gender Unit. | Read more
Grant Highlight by Cassandra Atlas and Virginia M. Bouvier | June 2011
Training Colombian Journalists
This project sought to highlight the broad spectrum of issues that link media and conflict resolution through a series of customized workshops and trainings in Washington, DC for Colombian war correspondents and editors. While providing an innovative training for Colombian journalists and war correspondents this pilot program also paved the way for more training for war correspondents within other war ridden countries. | Read more
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