HCIAS Wednesday Colloquium – Perspectives on Ibero America Más allá de los acuerdos: paz cotidiana y los festivales en el conflicto colombiano (in Spanish)

Peace studies have mostly focused on the construction of “peace” by political or social elites, armed groups and leaders of conflicting forces. Nonetheless, community-based efforts to build peace, however defined, are usually scarcely studied. This has changed in recent years with the “everyday peace” perspective. This new approach points to the importance and fundamental role played by the creation of conflict resolution mechanisms by communities. One of these mechanisms in the Montes de María in the Colombian Caribbean has been festivals. Through them, an area hard hit by violence, has rebuilt, and still rebuilds, the social fabric that was broken by the war. The talk seeks to highlight the importance of this type of initiatives for the construction of a “lasting and stable” peace.