On November 22, TraCe organized a non-public policy dialogue titled “One year of the Gustavo Petro government and the peace process in Colombia” at PRIF's Berlin office. The guests included representatives from the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development as well as members of the Bundestag working on Colombia.
In their opening brief inputs, TraCe researchers Jonas Wolff, Anika Oettler, Stefan Peters and Laura Guntrum as well as Indira Murillo (CAPAZ) and Laura Camila Barrios Sabogal (PRIF) outlined current research perspectives. This was followed by a lively dialogue with the eight guests from federal politics, some of whom were present on site and some of whom were connected virtually from Berlin, Bonn and even Bogotá.
The event focused on the challenges and prospects of the peace policy agenda of the current Colombian administration. Participants discussed structural barriers as well as opportunities for peacebuilding, violence against activists, the treatment of gender-based violence, for example through the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, feminist foreign and development policy, sustainability and the potential for international cooperation between Colombia and Germany. The event enabled the exchange of specialist expertise and political assessments, a critical and confidential discussion and the articulation of mutual needs.
The one-and-a-half-hour policy dialogue was organized by TraCe in cooperation with the German-Colombian Peace Institute CAPAZ and took place as part of the PRIF event series PRIF Dialogue.
Read more: Barrios Sabogal, Laura Camila / López Álvarez, Santiago / Wolff, Jonas (2023): Reintegration through Local Interactions: The Colombian Peace Process from the Perspective of Rural Communities TraCe Policy Brief No. 2, 08.11.2023, DOI: 10.48809/PRIFTraCePB2302.