Path to a New Colombia: Internal Conflict and the Peace Process
Internal Conflict and the Peace Process
September 24 & 25, 1999
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Path to a New Colombia: Internal Conflict and the Peace ProcessInternal Conflict and the Peace ProcessSeptember 24 & 25, 1999 |
Join prominent scholars and leaders from the Colombian civil society and U.S. activists to address the current crisis in Colombia and to search for grassroots alternatives to the escalating militarization of the Colombian conflict.
Friday, September 24 at 6:30 pm
Saturday September 25, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Hunter College, West Building
68th Street and Lexington Avenue
Participe en las charlas con prominentes académicos y líderes de la sociedad civil colombiana, y con activistas en Estados Unidos sobre la presente crisis por la que atraviesa Colombia, y únase a la búsqueda de soluciones alternativas a la creciente militarización del conflicto colombiano.
Viernes, septiembre 24, a las 6:30pm
Sábado, septiembre 25 de 8:30 am a 5:30 pm
Hunter College, Edificio Oeste
Calle 68 y Avenida Lexington
North American Congress on Latin America, NACLA; Our Americas: The Weekly Report on Latin America and the Caribbean; Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Roman Languages Departments at Hunter College; and Coalición de Organizaciones Colombianas de Nueva York.
North Star Fund
COLOMBIA MEDIA PROJECT
P.O. Box 1091 GPO, New York, NY 10116, Tel (212) 802-7209
Opening Plenary: Roots of the Internal War / Where is Colombia Heading?
Presentations: Alfredo Molano (sociologist/writer), Arturo Alape (historian/painter)
Moderators: Mario Murillo, Producer, Our Americas the Weekly Report on Latin America and the Caribbean, Professor of Audio-Visual Department, Hofstra University
Panel:
Carlos Salinas (Director of Latin America Program, Amnesty
International, USA
Eulalia Yagarí (Embera Chamí, Rep. to the Assembly,
Antioquia Department)
Carlos Rodríguez (Director of Colombian Commission of Jurists)
Víctor G. Ricardo (Director of the Colombian Peace Comission)
8:30 - 9:15 Registration
9:30 - 11:30 Plenary: Peace Negotiations / Peace Agenda and Civil Society
Presentations: Víctor G. Ricardo, Carlos Rodríguez, Piedad Córdoba (Senator)
Moderator: Sarah Gil (Colombia Media Project)
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 Panel A: United States Policy on Colombia
Presentations: Carlos Salinas, Winifred Tate (Officer, Washington Office on Latin America), Olga Gutiérrez (Coordinación Colombia-Europa-Estados Unidos)
Moderator: Mario Murillo
1:30 - 3:00 Panel B: Internal Refugees / Displacement
Presentations: Alfredo Molano, Eulalia Yagarí, Jesus Ramírez Cano, Legal consultant, Organización Indígena de Antioquia, OIA), Mary Díaz (Director of Women's Commission of Refugee Women and Children)
Moderator: Angel Patiño (Colombia Human Rights Committee, New Jersey)
3:30 - 5:00pm Panel A: Ethnic Minorities in Colombia
Presentations: Eulalia Yagarí, Jesus Ramírez Cano, Piedad Córdoba, Arturo Alape
Moderator: Ivan Rada (Colombia Media Project)
3:30 - 5:00pm Panel B: Solidarity / Organizing
Presentations: Alison Giffen (US-Colombia Office, Colombia Human Rights Network), Cristina Espinel (Colombia Human Rights Committee, Washington DC), Olga Gutiérrez (Coordinación Colombia-Europa-Estados Unidos)
Moderator: Victoria Maldonado (Colombia Media Project)
7:00 pm Reception
For more information contact Colombia Media Project
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