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The Colombian Cacao and Chocolate Salon hosted the 'Binational Dialogue: Cocoa and Chocolate on the Colombian-Venezuelan Border for Employment, Peace, and Development,' which was supported by PASO and attended by 32 representatives from eight cocoa-related organizations in Venezuela and Colombia.

The Mayor's Office of San José del Guaviare awarded a recognition to Flor Alba Quevedo, as representative of the cooperative COOMFASOL, for her outstanding work in support of the campesino’s economy in the region.

At the event "ARAUCA - Land of Cocoa, Land of Peace", within the framework of the Chocoshow 2023 fair, the cocoa farmers of Arauca, FEDECACAO and PASO Colombia signed a commitment for a cocoa sector at the service of the care of life and territorial peace.

Accompanied by peace signatories, campesino families, and allied institutions, the tour was successful in learning about the progress of the Catatumbo Peace Network from the field.

Through the farmers market at Expoguaviare, participants of the Peace Network highlighted their progress in collaborative work for agricultural production.

Former combatants and campesinos in Cauca and Valle came together to produce exquisite export-quality coffee.

Faculty and students from the Meyer Business on the Frontlines program at the University of Notre Dame recently visited COOMPAZCOL, a cooperative working with PASO Colombia in the ERA of Fonseca. During their visit they exchanged valuable lessons on the power of cooperation to create sustainable eco...

An emblematic brand for peace borns in Colombia: the first specialty coffee processed by ex-combatants and farmers victims of the armed conflict to be exported to Europe.

During 2022, the Rural Alternative Schools achieved the highest sales in their 6 years of life, thanks to the commitment to peace of the peasant and reincorporated communities with which we work, as well as the effective collaborative work model that we have developed with them.

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and PASO Colombia joined forces to carry out the workshop "Transitions: Attending to the Wounds of the Soul" in which ex-combatants and people working in the reintegration process learned about managing trauma and the path of psychosocial resilience.

PASO Colombia is supporting an urban agriculture project in marginalized neighborhoods of Cali, Colombia. It capitalizes the solidarity and desire for change present in these communities, to sow new forms of collective action that contribute to peace building.

Carl Stauffer, an expert in reconciliation from the United States Institute of Peace, held a meeting in Cali to discuss restorative justice and its contributions to the sustainability of the peace process with ex-combatants, representatives of public institutions in the department, and members of so...

1% of funding goes towards peace and security. A recent panel on UN Sustainable Development Goal 16 hosted by the Peace and Security Funders Group and Network of Engaged International Donors explored how to change that.

In Guaviare, farmer families are betting on networking to build peace in their territories. Gathering different partners and approaches, they are now united in the Guaviare Peace Network to collectively support each other in their productive, organizational, and economic projects.

This “Empirically Speaking” column explores the ways that collaboration and coordination can act as drivers of trust in local government and data from OEF's PASO Colombia program that shows a meaningful correlation.

Campesino and excombatant cooperatives join the Catatumbo Peace Network to promote collaborative work and commercial networks of their productive projects from different municipalities in the region.