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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…
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“Peace for life in the Amazon” is the third episode of the “Eddy’s postcards” podcast series. Defending good living, strengthening dialogue between ancestral and academic knowledge, and building community through audiovisuals. These are the difficult tasks Eddy is learning about…
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The interdisciplinary research project Gumelab (Transmission of history through entertainment media. Laboratory for memory research and digital methods) is a BMBF-funded research project run by Dr. Mónika Contreras Saiz and Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinke at Freie Universität Berlin. Gumelab “examines…
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The latest CAPAZ policy brief is entitled “Policy alternatives to forced manual eradication”. In this text, the authors analyse the results of forced manual eradication and put forward recommendations to reduce its negative social impacts and reduce illicit crops through…
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Following three Peace Slams in Colombia, the fourth will be held in Germany. What is Peace Slam? The Peace Slam is a public space in which research papers or projects are presented in a fun and creative way. The Slam…
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