The Entanglements of Peace: Reflections on the long road of transforming the armed conflict in Colombia

Organiser: Friedrich Ebert Foundation Berlin Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Speaker)

Colombia: Peace negotiations on the verge of breakthrough?, GIGA Berlin, Berlin Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann (Moderator), Prof. Dr. Angelika Rettberg (Panelist), Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Panelist)

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Organiser: German Embassy Colombia, Federal Foreign Office Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Consultant)

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US-Präsident Trump hat nach der Militäraktion in Venezuela weiteren lateinamerikanischen Staaten offen gedroht. Wie gefährlich ist Trumps Lateinamerika-Hinterhof-Politik? Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach erläutert geopolitische Interessen und Risiken für Venezuela, Kolumbien und Kuba.

After the US intervention in Venezuela, the relation between Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump became tense again. A phone call decreased the crisis but the political risks remain in place.

IBEI-GIGA Workshop Security, Conflict and Peace, IBEI, Barcelona Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Speaker)

Over the last decade liberal peacebuilding was heavily criticised for its Eurocentric bias privileging civil and political rights. Nevertheless, peacebuilding needs a normative frame based not only on individual rights but also on collective human rights as the basis for violence reduction, participation and conflict transformation.

Peace and conflict are not the same across territories and scales. Conceptualizing peace as a process based on three core functions of society and related norms allows us to identify variations in peacebuilding needs and perceptions. The entanglement of different scales shapes the diversity of peace and highlights the opportunities and challenges of peacebuilding and related norms, along with their diffusion and contestation.

Venezuela is an unusual context for a study on peace and peacebuilding. The book provides an analysis with a “conflict and peace” lens besides the fact that its high levels of violence are not an open war or armed conflict.

In Latin America, most violence is considered “criminal.” But a clear-cut distinction between political and criminal violence does not exist. Policies to reduce violence meander between repression and dialogue but lack comprehensiveness, and a focus on prevention, the rule of law, and human rights.

The asasination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio becomes part of Latin America's search for security policies to confront organised crime. Two models are pursued: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele opts for extreme repression while Colombian President Gustavo Petro favours talks for disarmament.

Organiser: Volkswagen Foundation Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Speaker)

How does the Covid-19 pandemic influence the dynamics of violence in Colombia and Syria.

Human Security in the Police Service. A Joint Construction for Life and Peace, Academía de la Policía Nacional, Bogotá Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Speaker)

The Colombian Police discusses how to adopt the frame of human security in their work.

Colombia elected its first leftist president on July 19th. Gustavo Petro and his vicepresident were inaugurated on Sunday 7th.

COVID-19 paved the way for a left-wing government winning in Colombia’s recent elections. The pandemic has deepened structural inequalities, promoting an unprecedented wave of protest against the right-wing incumbent. Answering with high levels of violence only further increased the call for change.

Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 space for women has been constantly shrinking, and the country is facing a humanitarian disaster. European partners may need to engage with the de facto regime, which should not come at the cost of excluding women from the engagement process.

Organiser: Friedrich Ebert Foundation Berlin Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Speaker)

Colombia: Peace negotiations on the verge of breakthrough?, GIGA Berlin, Berlin Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann (Moderator), Prof. Dr. Angelika Rettberg (Panelist), Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Panelist)

Analysen von GIGA-Expertinnen

Organiser: German Embassy Colombia, Federal Foreign Office Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Consultant)

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