Demobilization and Reintegration of ExCombatants in Colombia

Monday, July 11, 2011

By: Cassandra Atlas;  Virginia M. Bouvier

With the support of USIP, the Fundación Antonio Restrepo Barco developed a model psycho-social treatment program for 100 ex-combatants. Three professional counselors trained a group of thirty ex-combatants from the Caribbean coastal region in strategies to assist in their own social reintegration and to train them as peer counselors.

Strengthening the Capacity of Youth to Build Peace in Colombia

Strengthening the Capacity of Youth to Build Peace in Colombia

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

By: Cassandra Atlas;  Virginia M. Bouvier

Through a grant to Hijos e Hijas por la Memoria y Contra la Impunidad (Sons and Daughters for Memory and Against Impunity), USIP is strengthening a youth organization dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to Colombia's conflict, supporting young people’s desire to serve as leaders for peace in Colombia, and helping to develop the peace-making capacities of the younger generation.

Education & Training

Landmine Awareness Day

Monday, April 11, 2011

By: Virginia M. Bouvier

USIP’s Virginia Bouvier discusses the Landmine Awareness Day.

Type: Analysis

Cautious Optimism for Peace in Colombia

Cautious Optimism for Peace in Colombia

Thursday, September 16, 2010

By: Dr. Virginia M. Bouvier

On August 7, 2010, Juan Manuel Santos, a defense minister under the outgoing administration of President Alvaro Uribe, was inaugurated as Colombia’s new president. Peace issues were largely absent from public debate during the presidential campaign, but unexpectedly surfaced in the final weeks of President Uribe’s incumbency.

Type: Peace Brief

Conflict Analysis & PreventionMediation, Negotiation & Dialogue

Cauteloso optimismo por la paz en Colombia (edición español)

Cauteloso optimismo por la paz en Colombia (edición español)

Thursday, September 16, 2010

By: Dr. Virginia M. Bouvier

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.

Type: Peace Brief

Conflict Analysis & PreventionMediation, Negotiation & Dialogue

Hydrocarbons in the Amazon: Awakening Old Inequalities

Hydrocarbons in the Amazon: Awakening Old Inequalities

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

By: Patricia Vasquez

Private oil companies invested $800 million in Peru in 2009 alone, and another $1 billion is planned for investments in natural gas developments between 2010-2013, as Peru is rapidly on its way to becoming Latin America’s first exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG). New oil and gas revenues have contributed to Peru’s steady economic growth. But growing opposition from indigenous groups to these new hydrocarbons projects is polarizing Peru’s already highly unequal society and creating danger...

Type: Peace Brief

EnvironmentEconomics

Framing the State in Times of Transition

Framing the State in Times of Transition

Thursday, April 1, 2010

By: Laurel E. Miller;  with Louis Aucoin

Analyzing nineteen cases, Framing the State in Times of Transition offers the first in-depth, practical perspective on the implications of constitution-making procedure, and explores emerging international legal norms.

Type: Book

Time for a Peace Paradigm in Colombia

Time for a Peace Paradigm in Colombia

Thursday, January 28, 2010

By: Virginia M. Bouvier

With congressional and presidential elections respectively scheduled for March 14 and May 30, 2010, electoral politics in Colombia will shape the prospects for peace in the coming months. Peace does not appear on the government’s public policy agenda and it has yet to materialize as a campaign issue.

Type: Peace Brief

Colombia

Colombia

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

By: Virginia M. Bouvier;  editor

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.

Type: Book

In the Field: Colombia

Saturday, November 1, 2008

The Religion and Peacemaking program at USIP visited Colombia in November 2008 to support a joint-initiative of the Conferencia de Religiosos y Religiosas de Colombia, the organizing body of Catholic men’s and women’s religious orders, and Justapaz, a Menonite organization, to convene a four-day workshop outside of Bogota for Catholic and Protestant women peacemakers. This workshop provided an opportunity for women doing peace work on the ground through their churches to share best practices,...

Gender