Course: Construction of Peace

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Course: Construction of Peace

Action category:  Community Outreach,  Leadership and Professional Development,  Education and Curriculum,  Research
Associated keywords:  Latin America,  peace,  course
Latest update: 03/16/2018

Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goal : Peace, justice & strong institutions

Contribute to the development of knowledge and skills that allow the understanding of the peace process that Colombia is going through, to contribute to overcoming the armed conflict and understand its impacts in all sectors and social actors.

Module 1: Peacebuilding

  • Theory of conflicts and violence
  • Fundamentals on notions of peace (negative, positive, hybrid, liberal)
  • Peace-Making and Peace-Keeping
  • Peace construction (Peace-Building)
  • Infrastructures for peace
  • Peace processes compared.
  • Peacebuilding with a territorial approach

Module 2: Transitional justice

  •  What is transitional justice?
  • Truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition
  • Transitional justice and development
  • Model of Colombian transitional justice and current legal framework

Module 3: Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) and peacebuilding

  • General aspects of DDR: Conceptual evolution of DDR and theoretical basis
  • Disarmament, demobilization, reintegration, reintegration.
  • DDR and Development.
  • DDR in Colombia.

 

Module 4: Historical memory

  •  Memory as a psychic function and as a field of meaning and meaning.
  • Construction of memory narratives from the point of view of the victims.
  • Collective narratives and the ideological implementation of memory.
  • Approach to the understanding of the expressive dimensions of memory.

 

Module 5: Reconciliation.

  • Conceptual elements of Reconciliation
  • Direct and indirect actors
  • Key moments in the introduction of reconciliation processes
  • Models of implementation of reconciliation processes
  • Experiences and good practices of international reconciliation
  •  Experiences and good practices of reconciliation at the national level
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Module 6: The final agreement for the termination of the conflict and the construction of a stable and lasting peace.

  • The agreements of Havana
  • Possibilities, challenges and recommendations for the implementation of the Havana Agreement

More information

http://www.eafit.edu.co/cec/humanidades/ciencias-pol%C3%ADticas/curso-en-construccion-de-paz#objetivo