Ten new research projects announced by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will address issues facing Colombia’s transition from conflict to peace.
This includes a project led by academics from the University of Bristol to support community members in some of Colombia's most marginalised municipalities to produce creative pieces of memory work.
Creating memory work means using the pain of the past to create something useful for working towards peace in the present and future. Leer más...
En medio de la conmemoración del centenario del armisticio que puso fin a la Primera Guerra Mundial, la paz de Colombia y la implementación de los acuerdos sigue siendo tema de consulta para el presidente, Iván Duque.
Al referirse al papel que juega la Corte Penal Internacional en el proceso de paz de Colombia, afirmó que, “uno de los objetivos es evitar que crímenes de lesa humanidad queden en la impunidad”. Leer más...
The former president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, is to receive the 2017 Tipperary International Peace Award.
Mr Santos will be accompanied to Tipperary by Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt - whose long captivity as the hostage of FARC guerrillas and eventual rescue in 2008 made headlines throughout the world.
The guest list at the ceremony on November 16th will include Minister John Halligan, the EU Special Envoy for the Peace Process in Colombia Eamon Gilmore, members of the diplomatic corps and members of the Colombian community in Ireland.
A number of people involved in the Northern Ireland peace process are also due to attend. Leer más...
