Launching of the Truth Commission’s Alfredo Molano Chair
CAPAZ, recently joined the Alfredo Molano Bravo Chair: Voices and truths from the depths of Colombia by the
Truth Commission, an initiative intended to consolidate a space for dialogue of knowledge, creation, and social participation to discuss and analyze issues related to the national reality. Particularly, the Chair will discuss the progress and challenges that peasant communities; and indigenous, black, palenquero, and raizal groups have had to face as part of the peacebuilding process.
The Chair will be launched online on Thursday, October 21 from 2:00 to 5:30p.m. in an event attended by journalist Alfredo Molano Jimeno; Fernando Cruz Artunduaga, territorial coordinator of Caquetá; and Deisy Arrubla, researcher of the Knowledge Directorate. The launch will take the form of an interactive workshop.
Register here for the launch workshop.
The Alfredo Molano Bravo Chair
This Chair is designed as a space for an ongoing dialogue of academic knowledge and the application of practical knowledge that can influence and interact directly with the territorial reality. Participants will be able to create an open and plural forum for thought, debate, and dissemination of knowledge on the major problems that have led to violence, armed confrontation, and discrimination against the peasantry and indigenous peoples.
A series of objectives have been set to meet this goal. For example, there is the proposal to link the academic sector (undergraduate and graduate students, and professors) with social, environmental and peasant organisations in order to perform in-depth and critical analyses of the country’s socio-political reality. Another objective is to contribute to the construction of memory and truth in different ways, as such processes are also understood as a way to transform society.
The methodology proposed for the professorship is one that can be adapted to the curricula of our partner universities. Thus, for example, there are open professorships with or without credits, short courses, and diploma courses or seminars that can be adapted to the needs of students, teachers, and partner organisations.