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Première partie Table ronde et discussion avec la salle : pourquoi les luttes pour la mémoire sont-elles au cœur de l’actualité en Colombie ? Présentations de: Marie-Christine Doran (U d’Ottawa), Pierre Beaucage (U de Montréal), Leila Celis (UQAM), Daniel Ruiz Serna (U Concordia et U of British Colombia), Luis Sotelo Castro (U Concordia et Chaire […]

Peace talks between the Colombian government and leftist guerrillas unfolded after 2012 against the backdrop of rapid and violent capitalist expansion.  The conflict, which can be dated to the 1940s, was fought mainly in rural areas where government agents, security forces personnel, paramilitary organizations, and regional elites pursued policies of armed colonization, massively displacing rural […]

Human rights activism is often associated with international organizations that try to affect the behavior of abusive states around the globe. In Barrancabermeja, Colombia, argues Luis van Isschot in The Social Origin of Human Rights, the struggle for rights has emerged more organically and locally, out of a long history of civil and social organizing. […]