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Latest from USIP on Colombia

  • January 11, 2012   |   Publication

    Over the past several decades, dozens of countries have established truth commissions and other bodies to investigate mass atrocities or systematic human rights abuse. Lessons learned from past truth-finding processes are invaluable to help address the legacies of human rights violations in countries transitioning to democratic regimes in the Middle East and North Africa and elsewhere.

  • January 6, 2012   |   Publication

    USIP leaders explain the effect that events around the world and here at home will have on the U.S., and the contributions the Institute can and does make during a time of tremendous challenge – and opportunity.

  • January 4, 2012   |   Publication

    Gender and Peacebuilding Center Director, Kathleen Kuehnast, discusses USIP's focus on women's equality in 2011 and looks ahead at the gender projects USIP will work on in 2012.

  • December 21, 2011   |   Publication

    USIP leaders explain the effect that events around the world and here at home will have on the U.S., and the contributions the Institute can and does make during a time of tremendous challenge – and opportunity.

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:

 

Work & Analysis

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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