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.
Como parte de la primera fase de la construcción de la Red de Paz del Guaviare, se realizó la “Muestra agropecuaria y cultural de paz” en el municipio de El Capricho. En esta iniciativa participan 1,200 familias de 59 veredas, reuniendo reincorporados, familias ex-cocaleras, instituciones locales y ...
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.
Esta columna de "Empirically Speaking" explora las formas en las cuáles la colaboración y la coordinación pueden actuar como motores de la confianza en torno al gobierno local. Incluye los datos recogidos por el programa PASO Colombia de OEF que muestran correlación significativa con esta premisa.
Secure Fisheries Senior Research Associate and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) expert, Paige Roberts, conducted a guest GIS workshop for the Berbera Maritime and Fisheries Academy (BMFA) on March 20-21, 2022 on their campus in Berbera, Somaliland.
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.
PASO Colombia joins Voices from the Territory, a project in which we will work alongside communities in 40 PDET municipalities to collaboratively formulate communication projects on their peace-building experiences, using diverse expressions of art, media, and culture.
In the event "Peace in Theory and Practice: A Discussion on Peace Systems", the researcher Douglas Fry and the director of PASO Colombia, Juan Fernando Lucio, joined in a conversation about their theories of peacebuilding and the practical experience in the Colombian context.
The PeaceCon panel discussion “Connecting Our Evidence: Creating Alignment in Measuring Peace and Conflict” presented several perspectives about how to address the issues invoked by the idea of “evidence-based practice” in peacebuilding.
Local fishers, government officials, traders, the CMA management team, and Secure Fisheries collaborated on the five-year strategic plan for the fisheries Co-management Association in Zeila, Somaliland, on Dec. 15-16, 2021.
Secure Fisheries study emphasizes the importance of understanding fisheries conflict as a critical threat to stability and health within communities and illuminates how declining fish populations and efforts to reduce illegal fishing will undermine peace if not addressed.
In November, 2021, five towns along the Somali coast held community meetings to discuss phase two of the Fisheries Data Collection Working Group.
5 years after the Peace Agreement, the virtual event "Learning about territorial peace in Colombia" left a message of hope for those who work for peace in the areas most affected by the conflict.
The Alternative Peace Market (MERCAPAZ) is an initiative led by ex-combatants and campesinos who participate in the Rural Alternative School of Miranda, to create a fair trade venue for selling local agricultural products in the municipality of Miranda.