We recently interviewed Magda Viviana Téllez on “A paso de tesis…”, the Netcapaz platform’s section dedicated to young researchers. Telléz recently finished her Master’s degree in Science in Natural Resources and Rural Development at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur ECOSUR - ECOSUR (Mexico). Below...
CAPAZ received a delegation of German parliamentarians at its offices at Claustro de San Agustín in Bogotá. The delegation included Johannes Wagner (Grüner Partei), Heike Engelhardt (SPD), Anke Domscheit-Berg (Linkspartei), Jens Beeck (FDP) and Stefan Keuter (AFD). Their visit to Bogota was part of a...
On June 8, we were in Cali for a very special event. CAPAZ organized a panel on the topic of feminist foreign policy at Museo de La Tertulia, in connection with the visit of the German Foreign Affairs Minister, Analena Baerbock. The panel was opened by...
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Research on Biological Resources (Humboldt Institute) and CAPAZ have signed a Cooperation Agreement in a strategic alliance to strengthen research and promote biodiversity conservation. Both institutions seek to join efforts and knowledge to contribute to sustainable development and the...
CAPAZ issued a statement in response to the Report issued by the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia of June 27, 2023. The report highlights the worrying situation of violence against FARC peace signatories, social leaders, and magistrates of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)...
The latest CAPAZ Policy Brief, written by Lorena Carrillo González, is titled “From Infantilization to Political Agency: Another Perspective to Prevent Recruitment”. Lorena Carrillo is a sociologist, specialist in Human Rights and IHL. She holds a master’s degree in rural studies, and is a doctoral student...
On May 28th, the CAPAZ Academic Director attended an event in San Onofre, Sucre, where over 500 young people from the region were appointed Peace Monitors of the region. These young individuals will be responsible for spreading the message that there is a better way...
We present a new Policy Brief published by the editorial project of the Colombo-German Institute for Peace - CAPAZ. It is called "Transitional justice as a driver of transformation in Colombia". It was written by Paul Gready, José Antonio Gutiérrez Danton, Piergiuseppe Parisi and Simon...
Friday, May 5th, marked the closure of the Solidarity Economies for Peace project, funded by our colleagues from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. The project consisted in a participatory diagnosis with three organisations of survivors of the armed conflict on the challenges and opportunities for victims of...
Introducing the 5th edition of the Peace Slam by the CAPAZ Institute! This time the event will take place in Florencia, Caquetá. If you are a student at Universidad de la Amazonia, you might be interested in joining the Peace Slam by presenting your research or...
The Report of the Truth Commission was published approximately a year ago, and since then, Colombian society has made numerous efforts to embrace its legacy. CAPAZ, in collaboration with the Alfredo Molano Bravo Foundation, is no exception. That's why, since 2022, they have been working...
CAPAZ is currently accepting applications for research projects focused on peacebuilding in Colombia. They will provide funding for a maximum of five (5) projects, with each project receiving a subsidy of up to €5,000 (five thousand euros). The selected projects should be implemented between July...
The documentary series "Youth Laboratory of Communication and Political Action”, produced in collaboration between CAPAZ and the Luis Ángel Arango Library, was officially released on April 26th. This series showcases the stories of young social leaders who are actively working in their respective regions to...
On April 25th, we attended the forum "Perspectives on Negotiation with the ELN" at the Jockey Club Auditorium at Universidad del Rosario. The forum was organised in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Stiftung and the Dialogue Centre of the university. The opening remarks were given by...
In der Woche vom 3. bis zum 6. April 2023 fand in Gießen die Spring School "Basic principles for peace and sustainable development in Ukraine and beyond" statt, welche von der Professur für Friedensforschung der JLU Gießen in Kooperation mit Wissenschaftler:innen der Gießener Partneruniversität NaUKMA...
Stefan Peters konnte mit seiner Expertise zu der Folge “Spezial: Wie eine Landreform Kolumbien befrieden soll” des Nachrichtenpodcasts "Was Jetzt?” der ZEIT ONLINE beitragen. In diesem Spezial beleuchtet der Journalist Jannis Carmesin die Zusammenhänge zwischen der ungleichen Landverteilung in Kolumbien und dem bewaffneten Konflikt. Denn...
On one of the stops on their trip to Brazil and Colombia, German Ministers Robert Habeck (Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economy) and Cem Özdemir (Agriculture) visited the CAPAZ offices in Bogota. The ministers were received in the Claustro de San Agustín rooms belonging to...
In the framework of the 2023 agenda for the socialisation of the legacy of the Truth Commission, CAPAZ together with the Peace and Human Rights Observatory at Universidad del Tolima, and the Peace Office at Universidad de la Amazonía, PROPAZ GIZ, and the Technical Working...
CAPAZ Institute joined forces with several organisations in one of the most important contemporary art exhibitions in the world: Documenta Fifteen. Among them, our colleagues from Más Arte Más Acción and Nodo Alemania in support of the Truth Commission. Between June 10 and July 10, 2022,...
How does DAAD's work relate to the German government's feminist foreign and development policy objectives? This installment of the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) features an interview with CAPAZ Director Stefan Peters, who provides his point of view on these ideas that are being developed by the...
Trato Hecho is a program that promotes research and learning in negotiation, conflict resolution, and restorative processes in organisations and the country. It is backed by a partnership between the School of Administration at the CAPAZ founding institution, Universidad de los Andes, and the Con-Ciencia...
The CAPAZ Board of Directors meeting took place on February 22nd and 23rd with all the representatives of each of the universities that are part of the CAPAZ consortium. The meeting was held at the newspaper library at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where we shared...
The event “Truth in Exile: The Road to Peace in Colombia” was held in Germany on February 17, AT the Gasteig HP8 Hans-Preißinge Cultural Centre in Munich. The event brought together the Vice President of Colombia, Francia Márquez, Colombian Chancellor Álvaro Leyva, representatives of the...
CAPAZ science collaborator, Marcela Pardo, and CAPAZ academic director, Stefan Peters edited the book “Political Education: Debates of a history to be built”, which we recently published in partnership with the Centre for Research and Popular Education/Program for Peace (Cinep/PPP). In the preface, Professor Peters...
Am 23. Januar 2023 fand ein Arbeitsfrühstück des Instituts für Agrarrecht der Universität Göttingen als Vertreter des CAPAZ-Instituts mit der kolumbianischen Ministerin für Landwirtschaft und ländliche Entwicklung, Cecilia López, in der kolumbianischen Botschaft in Berlin statt. Auf kolumbianischer Seite waren neben der Ministerin auch die Botschafterin ...
The CAPAZ Institute held its last two activities in Germany from December 17 to 21, 2022, in order to meet and discuss research and projects with social impact in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Germany, around central themes of the realities of these countries: political education,...
Universidad Externado de Colombia ran 9 training workshops for active participation during the months of October and November, as part of the proposal "Dialogues: Truth, geography and listening on the road to transformation as a reparatory and restorative measure", winner of the "Alfredo Molano Bravo...
This five-episode series will bring together the voices of those who participated in the Winter School "The Truth Commission Report: A Historical Archive for the Future of Colombia. Alfredo Molado Chair," November 28-December 1, 2022, at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. They stem from the dialogue and...
Listen to Eddy's latest sound postcard! Montes de María, in northern Colombia, is a vast region of majestic landscapes, joyful communities, and lively traditions, and Eddy seems to know this region well. “Resist and persist”, that's what Eddy has called the fourth and last episode...
The Central Auditorium at Universidad de Ibagué hosted the fourteenth session of the international inter-university chair “Continuing the Road to Peace: The Legacy of Colombia's Truth Commission” on November 11. On this occasion, students, teachers and professionals from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) and...
This issue is intended to contribute to this conversation through texts that emerge from these disciplinary and epistemic intersections. We invite the academic community to send us unpublished manuscripts on topics including environmental conflicts and health; food sovereignty and security; rural and community health; ancient...
ForensicTechColombia is a space of innovation and forensic technology at the service of justice in societies in transition. In its 2022 version, Forensic Tech will feature international experts with experience in the investigation, search, recovery, and identification of victims of disappearance in transnational scenarios. This year,...
CAPAZ and one of its partner universities, the University of Erfurt in Germany, have joined forces to implement a Capstone project, to deepen one of the recommendations of the Final Report of the Truth Commission: the reform of the security sector. This alliance is made...
[caption id="attachment_43773" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Foto: Universidad del Rosario[/caption] A recent note published on the Universidad del Rosario website highlights the CAPAZ Institute's participation in an event that took place last week, where "community leaders and actors, academia and members of the new government discussed the leadership...
The Chair for Peace Studies at Justus Liebig University, Giessen and CAPAZ invite applicants from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela to apply for an Exchange of Experiences on Political Education for a Sustainable and Peaceful Future. The purpose of the international academic exchange is to analyze...
Do you remember June 28 at the Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater in Bogotá? What were you doing? Many of us were glued to the live broadcast of the event of the presentation of the Truth Commission's final report. The theater hall was full and there were...
This is the seventh chapter of La Lupa, one of the web series of CAPAZ' Education and Science Diplomacy project. On this occasion, Solveig Richter (Professor of International Relations and Transnational Politics at CAPAZ associate member Leipzig University, Germany) and Laura Camila Barrios (Graduate in Government...
ColombiaCONNECT is a German-Colombian cooperation network that promotes the fair and sustainable use of biological resources, of which the CAPAZ is a member. The network's second workshop was held this month in Frankfurt. The meeting was hosted by the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, the University of...
CAPAZ continues to grow and its networks include more and more partners. This time, Leipzig University has been appointed as a new associate member. Its application was made through the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), one of the CAPAZ Institute's founding members. The spokesperson for this...
CAPAZ is pleased to announce the (5) training proposals selected to receive support and be developed during 2022. A total of (20) applications were received, of which seventeen (17) met the mandatory requirements set forth in the terms of reference. Finally, five (5) proposals were selected...
On July 2, 3 and 4, a training session was held for young facilitators of the "Communication and Political Action Laboratory", an alliance between Capaz, the Luis Ángel Arango Library, and the La paz se toma la palabra project run by Banco de la República's...
The Justus-Liebig University, Giessen (JLU) recently published a statement explaining the significance and importance of the presentation of the Truth Commission’s Final Report, that will take place in Berlin and Frankfurt this week. «The report is based on the testimonies of some 30,000 people from victims'...
Colombia's Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition (CEV) will present its Final Report on July 6 and 7 in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main (Germany). CAPAZ, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), the German Node, Kolko, and Misereor have joined forces...
The Peace Office, the School of Law, and the School of Education Sciences at Universidad de la Amazonía organized a series of events on June 9 and 10, in which CAPAZ participated. The conference "Transitional Justice: Challenges in a context of inequality" held on June...
Here at CAPAZ, we are pleased to announce that our Science Collaborator, Juliana González Villamizar, recently won the Herbert-Stolzenberg Prize of the Giessen Graduate Center for Social Science, Economics, and Law. This is the graduate center at the University of Giessen, where Juliana is currently...
On July 7, will be held in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), the official presentation of the Final Report of the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition (CEV) of Colombia. The German-Colombian Peace Institute (CAPAZ), the Nodo Alemania, Kolko, Misereor and the Peace...
On July 6, will be held in Berlin (Germany) the presentation of the Final Report of the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition (CEV) of Colombia. The German-Colombian Peace Institute, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), the Nodo Alemania, Kolko...
CAPAZ Academic Director, Dr. Carlos Nupia, wrote the foreword to the book Forced Displacement in Conflict Scenarios: Ethics and Human Rights Perspectives recently published by Universidad Javeriana. The book was edited by Andrea Hellmeyer and Eduardo Díaz-Amado, who compiled a series of analyses by various experts...
The Science and Education Diplomacy project continues with the CAPAZ Slams - forums for the exchange of knowledge and experiences for peace building. The last CAPAZ Slam was held on May 21 in Quibdó, Chocó. At Uniclaretiana, we learned about 5 research and peace-building initiatives on...
Chapter three of #VoxPopuli. This is one of the web series of our Science and Education Diplomacy project. Click the link to find out more about the other products included in the project (more videos, opinion columns, and events). In this chapter, Mónika Contreras Saiz (teacher and...
«Fundación Gabo, the Truth Commission, and CAPAZ join forces to offer four on-site workshops in Cartagena, Cali, Neiva, and Bogotá, to provide contextual information, tools and best practices for a rigorous coverage of the Final Report and the legacy of the Truth Commission» — Fundación...
This is the fourth chapter of our web series La Lupa! which is part of our Education and Science Diplomacy project. Angelika Rettberg is Professor of Political Science at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Her research interests include peacebuilding, political economy in armed conflicts and...
The Reform of the Security Sector in the Post-Accord conference, organised by CAPAZ in partnership with Universidad de Antioquia, was held on April 19 and 20, 2022. Security experts discussed the challenges faced by the security sector in terms of gender, rural context, social protest,...
CAPAZ is pleased to invite professors and researchers from its partner universities (founding and associate members) to submit applications for training activities within the framework of the Alfredo Molano Bravo Chair, promoted by the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition (CEV) and...
As part of our Education and Science Diplomacy project, we are premiering the third episode of La Lupa, the project's third audio-visual web series. Each episode provides a brief and stimulating explanation of research topics related to peace in Colombia. In this chapter of La...
CAPAZ was involved in the presentation of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca's (CRIC) Women's Programme report to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) on March 17. CAPAZ was involved in the preparation of this report since 2021. The report The report is called ‘Voices from the heart...
On Wednesday, March 16, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Bogota hosted the presentation of the report Forced displacement beyond the border: Victims' contributions to truth, justice, and peace from Venezuela by CAPAZ, together with the International Victims Forum (IVF) - Venezuela Chapter, and...
The work conducted by CAPAZ since 2016 to support peacebuilding has been highlighted on the DAAD Germany (Deutscher Akademischer Austaschdienst) website. The article highlights that "with German and Colombian academic and research partners, CAPAZ has provided scientific support to the peace process". It also highlights...
CAPAZ supported and was present at the conference on Structural racism, exclusion, and guarantees of non-repetition, Black, Afro-Colombian, Raizal, and Palenquero people, held on March 8 and 9, and organised by The Truth Commission, CODHES, CAPAZ, and CONPA in Cartagena, Colombia. CAPAZ Academic Director, Prof. Dr. Stefan Peters and...
This is the second chapter of #EntreNos, our Education and Science Diplomacy project web series! In this chapter, Rafael Quishpe (CAPAZ Science Collaborator and researcher at Universidad del Rosario) and Milay Mosquera (Musician and representative of the Red de Cantadoras del Pacífico Sur) sat down to talk about...
On February 18, the Association of Black and Afro-descendant Women Human Rights Defenders and Victims of the Armed Conflict of Putumayo (ASOMUNEP), supported by CAPAZ, the National Women’s Network (RNM), the Friedrich Stiftung Foundation, the Institute of Intercultural Studies at Javeriana - Cali and ITACHO programas solidarios, presented the...
As part of our medicinal plants project supported by ColombiaCONNECT, we recently published an infographic that characterizes the medicinal plants included in the research in order to document the knowledge and practices of medicinal plants used by survivors of the armed conflict in Caquetá, from...
Tuesday, February 15 saw the opening session of the “Online Environmental Peace Training Course on the fair and sustainable use of biological resources - CAPAZ 2022”. This course is a joint effort with Corporación Biodiversa for participation and discussion on environmental justice and peace, with...
El proceso de vivir en el exilio siendo afrocolombianas/os, palenqueros y raizales, la razones que llevan a los colombianos y colombianas a ubicarse en el exterior y cómo es posible seguir construyendo paz desde el exilio, son algunos de los temas que se conversan durante...
Vox Populi is back! As part of its Education and Science Diplomacy project, CAPAZ is producing several web series intended to transfer academic knowledge to a more public sphere. For example, in the first chapter of Vox Populi, the German Ambassador to Colombia, Peter Ptassek, spoke with...
As part of our Education and Science Diplomacy project, we are launching the second episode of La Lupa, the project's third web-based video series. Each episode will provide a brief and thought-provoking look at research topics related to peace in Colombia. Inge Valencia (Universidad ICESI) and...
At 5:00pm to 7:00pm on Monday January 24, the students on the online course "Management of Research Cooperation Projects on Conflict and Peace Issues" met for the first time for their first class of the course. Initially, there were 30 places for students interested in taking...
From 24 to 29 October 2021, thirty researchers from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru met in the context of the international academic exchange "Political education for peaceful sustainable development". They met near Medellín, Colombia, at the East campus of Universidad de Antioquia, where they exchanged research...
[caption id="attachment_41365" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (https://www2.daad.de/der-daad/daad-aktuell/de/81630-deutsch-lateinamerikanische-kooperationen-/)[/caption] At the end of 2021, the DAAD Centre of Excellence for International Scientific Cooperation (KIWi) and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), hosted an online event where academics and researchers from the education sector discussed the importance of...
On Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. (Berlin time), the group of interviewers from the German Node (Nodo Alemania) in support of the Colombian Truth Commission will hold the first open virtual space, intended for those interested in learning about the work of the...
CAPAZ will broadcast its first episode of its new web column: “La paz, ahora más que nunca” (Peace, now more than ever) on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, and it will continue to run one episode per week every Tuesdays. The series invites experts to comment on...
The Publications Catalogue contains issues of the CAPAZ Working Papers and Policy Briefs from 2019 to date and announces upcoming publications in 2020....
El presente Policy Brief, cuyo autor es el académico jurídico Boaventura de Sousa Santos, fue apoyado y patrocinado por el Instituto CAPAZ y el CEDPAL de la Universidad Georg-August-Universität Göttingen....
CAPAZ is pleased to present its first Policy Brief of 2020....
CAPAZ is pleased to present its Policy Brief 2-2020 by Luis Fernando Trejos, entitled: "Situation of the armed actors in the Colombian Caribbean: From armed order to criminal anarchy"....
In the third CAPAZ Policy Brief 3-2020 published in March 2020, researcher Carolina Naranjo Escobar presents the current dramatic situation of social leaders in Colombia, based on the life story of the social leader from Bojayá (Chocó) Leyner Palacios, in her contribution entitled: "Situation of...
The German-Colombian Peace Institute - CAPAZ together with Universidad de Caldas notify the media and the public that the Second International CAPAZ Congress has been postponed to a new date....
Das Auswärtige Amt bewilligt dem Deutsch-Kolumbianischen Friedensinstitut - Instituto CAPAZ Fördermittel zur Unterstützung der Arbeit der kolumbianischen Wahrheitskommission in Deutschland....
We are pleased to bring you the videos on the Second CAPAZ Young Researchers' Conference, held in Medellín on November 6 and 7, 2019....
An der Professur für Friedensforschung (Prof. Dr. Stefan Peters), Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, ist in einem drittmittelfinanzierten Projekt ab dem nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt, zunächst befristet bis zum 31.12.2020 eine Teilzeitstelle im Umfang von 50% einer Vollbeschäftigung...
The CAPAZ Institute and CEDPAL (University of Göttingen) call for the project on academic support for the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition in Colombia will be open until February 10, 2020....
The German-Colombian Peace Institute (CAPAZ) is pleased to publish the results of its 2019 call for research projects....
This CAPAZ working paper addresses the question of the extent to which sexual or sexualised violence, as perpetrated en masse in the course of wars, civil wars, civil war-type conflicts, and comparable forms of armed conflict....
Auf Einladung der AKSB und dem Instituto CAPAZ informieren sie sich vom 13.-19. Januar 2020 über die Strukturen der politischen Bildung in Deutschland und diskutieren aktuelle Ansätze angesichts neuer Herausforderungen....
Saludo de navidad en 2019 del Instituto CAPAZ y deseos para el año que llega. / Weihnachtsgruss des CAPAZ-Instituts im Jahr 2019....
As part of the project "Stabilization of peace in Colombia through Justice and Truth”, developed by CAPAZ and the CEDPAL, Prof. Dr. Kai Ambos and Prof. Dr. Iván Meini conducted two workshops and technical roundtables at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) On December 4...
The NETCAPAZ platform of researchers specialised in conflict and peace issues has just registered its 200th researcher, thus becoming a key tool for academic and research cooperation between Colombia and Germany....
Keywords: Territorial peace; geographical imagination; moral imagination; peacebuilding in Colombia; social movements. Author/researcher: Luis Peña, PhD....
In cooperation with CEDPAL, the CAPAZ Institute will strengthen the work of the Directorate of Knowledge of the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition (CEV) by hiring Luis Carlos Sánchez and Luis Miguel Buitrago, researchers specialised in democracy and armed conflict....
CAPAZ presents the working document (04-2019) dedicated to the theme of memory and art, from the perspective of the German artist Horst Hoheisel....
El Instituto CAPAZ presenta su reciente Policy Brief (5-2019), publicado en noviembre de 2019, sobre la compleja relación entre producción de conocimiento y construcción de paz....
Take a look at the programme for the 2019 CAPAZ Congress of Young Researchers, taking place in Medellín at Universidad de Antioquia on 6 and 7 November, 2019....
On October 3 and 4, 2019, CAPAZ, together with the CEDPAL of the University of Göttingen, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) and the Truth Commission (CEV) held a workshop entitled "Dialogue with universities on reporting to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) and the...
The Congress will take place at Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia. Deadline for applications: Thursday, October 10, 2019....
The forum "Citizen Political Education" on September 5, 2019 gathered expert voices from Colombia and Germany around the same purpose: to strengthen citizen political education in Colombia....
The CAPAZ 2019 Summer School will take place in Berlin from 23 to 27 September 2019....
"Remembering, forgetting, speaking, silencing. The social management of conflictive pasts" is the third working document published by CAPAZ in 2019....
The working paper entitled "Civic education in Germany: Development and aspects of the current discussion" is CAPAZ' most recent publication. Its author is Prof. Dr. Bernd Overwien (University of Kassel)....
On August 9, 2019 took place the signing of the grand document at the German Embassy in Bogota....