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Regional Peace Co-construction in Colombia: Innovations and Challenges
October 30, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Free
With Andrei Gómez-Suárez, Delegate of the Colombian government to the negotiations with guerrilla group Comuneros del Sur.
Location:
Teaching Room 03, Old College, University of Edinburgh Law School
Date/time:
Wednesday 30 October 2024
15:00–16:00 GMT
About this event:
PeaceRep and the Global Justice Academy are delighted to host visiting academic, Andrei Gómez-Suárez, for a discussion on the ongoing peace process negotiations in Colombia.
Following over a half a century of conflict, the Colombian government is now pursuing a “Total Peace” strategy, which involves negotiating with all armed and political rebel groups including the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissent groups of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Peace negotiations have also involved efforts towards reconciliation, including assistance and reparation for victims of conflict.
In this seminar, Andrei will share his first-hand experience of negotiating as part of the Colombian government’s delegation in Nariño with guerrilla group Comuneros del Sur.
Andrei will discuss the innovative approaches he and his colleagues are taking to build lasting peace, while also sharing the challenges inherent in fostering inclusive dialogue and navigating complex regional dynamics.
Following the presentation, there will be an opportunity for attendees to participate in a Q&A.
This event is in-person only. Refreshments will be provided.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/regional-peace-co-construction-in-colombia-innovations-and-challenges-tickets-1037680108137
About the speaker
Andrei Gómez-Suárez (PhD University of Sussex) is part of the Colombian government’s delegation in a peace process in Nariño, living in Edinburgh but spending part of each year in Colombia. He is visiting academic at the University of Edinburgh and co-founder of peacebuilding organisation Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD, or Embrace Dialogue). He has lectured at the Universities of Bristol, Oxford, Sussex, and Winchester and has done consultancies for Conciliation Resources, the International Organisation for Migrations, and in Colombia for the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, the National Centre for Historical Memory, and the Ombudsman’s Office. His books include Genocide, Geopolitics and Transnational Networks: a Con-textualisation of the Destruction of the Patriotic Union in Colombia (Routledge, 2015), El Triunfo del No: la Paradoja Emocional detrás del Plebiscito (Icono, Colombia, 2016), and We are not made of sugar: a childhood memoir from Colombia (forthcoming, Fuller Vigil 2025).