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Colombia: Land and the Agenda for Peace
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3:53:08Now PlayingDate: April 3, 2013
Five months ago, formal peace talks were launched between the government of Colombia and the FARC-EP guerrillas. The early rounds of talks have focused on the issue of agrarian development—the first of six agreed agenda items. Highly skewed land tenure patterns, a root cause of Colombia's longstanding internal armed conflict, have worsened over time as guerrilla insurgents, paramilitary groups, drug traffickers, agro-industrialists and the State battle for control of land, resources, and geo-strategic corridors. This violence has displaced five million Colombians, forced the evacuation of an estimated 20 million hectares of land, and produced a "reverse agrarian reform" that consolidates one of the most inequitable land tenure systems in the world. What proposals are being developed to address these land inequities, to restitute the victims of Colombia's internal armed conflict, and to build sustainable peace?
On April 3, 2013, this event provided a platform for discussion on the relationship between land and the peace agenda among a variety of stakeholders from the U.S. and Colombian governments, victims and affected parties, academics, international organizations, and NGOs. This event was co-sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace and the U.S. Office on Colombia, with the support of U.S. Agency for International Development, U.N. Development Program, Latin America Working Group Education Fund, Mercy Corps, Inter-American Foundation, and Lutheran World Relief.
Speakers
Absalón Machado
Rural Development Consultant, United Nations Development Program (PNUD), Colombia Academic coordinator, Informe Nacional de Desarrollo Humano 2011 para Colombia (Rural Colombia: Reasons for Hope)
Carlos Salgado
Director, Planeta Paz
Ricardo Sabogal
Director, Unit for the Restitution of Lands/Unidad de Restitución de Tierras
Ángela Suárez Álvarez
Program Manager, Victims Institutional Strengthening Program (VISP),
USAID/Colombia
Zoraida Castillo
Director, Lutheran World Relief,
Colombia
Yamile Salinas
Independent researcher and specialist in land rights
Donny Meertens
Professor, National University and Javeriana University
Jaime Enrique Arias
Representative, National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC)
Everyldis Córdoba Borja
Coordinator, COCOMASUR (Community Council of Afro-Colombian Communities of the River Tolo)
Luis Ernesto Vargas Silva
Magistrate, Constitutional Court of Colombia
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