CAPAZ TAKES PART IN SEMINAR ON EDUCATION AND PEACE IN THE UPB MEDELLÍN
The Academic Director of the CAPAZ Institute, Prof. Dr. Stefan Peters has been invited to present the keynote lecture at the “Peacebuilding in an Educational Perspective” seminar, organised by Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, in association with CAPAZ.
The seminar will take place on Friday, August 16, 2019, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in the Aula Magna Manuel José Sierra Rios, UPB Laureles Campus in Medellín. Admission is free.
The event aims to strengthen the ties of cooperation between CAPAZ and the UPB, one of its associate members, but its main purpose is to socialise the good practices and significant experiences currently taking place in research and academic cooperation on issues of peacebuilding and national reconciliation.
In addition to the keynote lecture by Dr. Peters, the seminar will also feature the educational peacebuilding programme run at the UPB, and research projects and experiences of local, national, and international peacebuilding actors.
Agenda for the “Peacebuilding in an Educational Perspective” seminar:
Friday, August 16, 2019 – 8:00 a.m.-12:00 m. / Aula Magna Manuel José Sierra Ríos, Laureles Campus, UPB Medellín, Colombia
8:00 a.m. Installation.
8:30 a.m. Presentation of the German Colombian Peace Institute – CAPAZ.
8:45 a.m. Conference: “The peace process in Colombia, the challenge of social inequalities”. By Prof. Dr. Stefan Peters.
9:30 a.m. Presentation of the peacebuilding in an educational perspective programme. Methodological and conceptual aspects.
10:00 a.m. Café del mundo. Socialisation of research projects by thematic fields.
11:00 a.m. Conversation. Voices of the actors.
11:40 a.m. Closure.
For more information and contact, directly with the organisation at UPB Medellín: porfirio.cardona@upb.edu.co
(Text: Claudia Maya. English version: Tiziana Laudato)