The Washington Office on Latin America
is pleased to invite you to a seminar
New Trends in Human Rights Violations:A Challenge to Peace for Colombia
featuring
Fr. Mauricio García-Durán
Director of Colombian organization Fundación CINEP (Center for Investigation and Popular Education)
Wednesday, March 18, 200911:30 am – 12:30 pm
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
1666 Connecticut Ave. 4th floor
Washington, DC
Fr. García-Durán will be speaking as the director of CINEP, a non-profit organization with the mission of working for development of a more peaceful and humane society through integrated and sustainable development schemes. Founded in 1972, CINEP also mediates social conflicts in Colombia in an attempt to bolster sectors of the population that are discriminated against or excluded from institutional peace processes and promote their participation in the advancement of the country.
Please join us for this discussion on the roots of the Colombian conflict, the various peace initiatives operating within the Colombian domestic context, and their potential for achieving progress within the Colombian peace process.
Mauricio García-Durán is a Jesuit priest with a Bachelor’s of the Arts in Political Science and a Doctorate in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, UK. He has spent the last 18 years researching political processes and social mobilization programs that aim at achieving peace in Colombia. In addition, he has worked on displaced persons programs for CINEP and the Jesuit Refugee Service. His most recent publication is entitled “Peace Movements in Colombia, 1978-2003” (Bogotá: CINEP, 2006).
Fr. García-Durán’s remarks will be in Spanish, with interpretation into English available.
To RSVP, please email Rachel Robb at rrobb@wola.org or call (202) 797-2171 by March 17th.