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As a national, nonpartisan, independent Institute, the U.S. Institute of Peace draws on our exceptional convening power to create opportunities for diverse audiences to exchange knowledge, experiences, and ideas necessary for creative solutions to difficult challenges. We serve as an important, neutral platform for bringing together government and nongovernment, diplomacy, security, and development actors, and participants across political views. The Institute’s events help shape public policy and priorities to advance peaceful solutions to conflict and strengthen international security.
Female Soldiers and DDR: Sierra Leone, Nepal, and Colombia
How are the roles of "soldier" and "victim" defined by post-conflict programs? Most disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programs are limited in the ways in which issues specific to female combatants are addressed. At this public event panelists examined the particular challenges faced by female ex-combatants in post-conflict environments, and ways in which reintegration agencies and post-conflict programs can integrate gender into their work.
His Excellency Angelino Garzón, Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia
Vice President Garzón is the first senior Colombian official to visit Washington since the inauguration of President Juan Manuel Santos in August 2010. Garzón will discuss new directions taken under the Santos government, in such areas as social and agrarian reform, peace, human rights, and foreign policy. Webcast: This event will be webcast live beginning at 4:30pm EST on January 26, 2011 through the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Peacebuilding in Dangerous Places: The Work of Civil Society in Conflict Zones
This event features four USIP grantees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Colombia and Sudan who are intimately familiar with the on-the-ground realities in their countries. The grantees discuss implementing peacebuilding projects in difficult and dangerous environments. Washington planners will be able to hear first hand what on-the-ground practitioners are doing to stay safe while getting important work done.
Land Reform, Conflict, and Development in Bolivia and Colombia
Land is at the root of many violent conflicts and wars around the world. In addition to fighting over land and related natural resources, rural landholding systems often sustain patterns of inequality and widespread rural poverty that generate conflict. This event co-sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace and the InterAmerica Foundation will examine the challenges of land tenure and the efforts at land reform in Colombia and Bolivia--two Latin American countries where the gap between the ri...
The Other Side of Gender: Masculinity Issues in Violent Conflict - Part II
The Other Side of Gender series addresses wartime sexual violence by taking into account male gender issues.
Human Rights in Colombia: New Tools for the Toolkit?
USIP cordially invites you to join us for a discussion with Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos Calderón. Vice President Santos will talk about the status of human rights in Colombia today and Colombia’s experience engaging in a new United Nations process, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Displacement in Colombia
With more than four million internally displaced Colombians- an average of more than a quarter of a million people annually in recent years- and almost half a million more forced to flee across national borders in search of safety, Colombia now ranks just behind Sudan in the numbers of people displaced by the conflict. Women, youth, Afro-Colombians, and indigenous communities have been disproportionately affected by the conflict and by the displacement it causes.
Creating Structures for Peace and Justice: Experiences from Colombia and Beyond
Representatives of the Partners for Democratic Change's new Center in Colombia, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Due Process of Law Foundation will host a roundtable discussion about these mechanisms for democratizing justice at the community level. Discussion with invited experts will explore other experiences of community dispute resolution, as well as the challenges community justice mechanisms face and how they have been addressed.
Colombia: A Congressional View from Representative Jim McGovern
Following President Álvaro Uribe’s visit to Washington in late June and his meeting with President Obama, Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) will offer his views on how the U.S. should approach Colombia and prospects for peace in the country’s decades-long internal conflict.