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Security
Sector Reform: Workshops in DC
- June
24th, 2002 "Joining Efforts for Colombia", meeting
organized by the Colombia Program, Ecole de la Paix and Friedrich Ebert
Foundation in Colombia (FESCOL).
Georgetown University’s Colombia Program
in conjunction with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Germany)
and the Ecole de la Paix (France), with the support from the
United States Embassy in Colombia, USAID, The Swiss Government, the
German Government, the Ford Foundation, Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation
for Human Kind Promotion (France), put together the meeting “JOINING
EFFORTS FOR COLOMBIA”. The objective was to open a venue for policy
makers, NGOs and experts from Colombia, Europe and the United States,
to discuss on off the record and for non-attribution bases,
key issues related to the future of Colombia, taking into account
the following aspects: i) the end of the peace talks between the Colombia
government and the FARC, ii) the main advances and drawbacks to the
conversations with the ELN iii) the paramilitary phenomenon, iv) civil
resistance against violence, v) the context of the “international
alliance against terrorism”, and vi) the inauguration
of the new President of Colombia (2002-2006) on August 7th
2002. The general objectives of the meeting were: to Identify
the conditions that will determine the eventual solutions for
the internal armed conflict, as well as the conditions that can guarantee
stability and institutional strengthening for the next Presidential
administration; to Define the lines of action for the international
community, that would contribute to the institutional strengthening
and to the solution of the internal armed conflict and to Create
an opportunity to join efforts among Colombians, American and
Europeans to support and monitor processes of international
cooperation on behalf of Colombia.
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October 8th, 2002 "Democratic Security in Colombia".
Meeting organized by the Colombia Program of Georgetown University.
Speech by Sandra Ceballos, Colombia Congresswoman, President
of Human Rights Commission and Member of National Defense and International
Affairs Committee and Jack Goldsten, Colombian Businessman and
President of the Sanford Group.
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October 18th, 2002 “The Role of Colombia's Attorney General in the
Context of Internal Turmoil". Meeting organized by the Colombia
Program. Speech by Luis Camilo Osorio, Attorney General of Colombia.
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November 19th, 2002 “Building Equality, Security and Citizenship
in Developing Cities: The Success Story of Bogotá”. Speech by Enrique
Peñalosa. Former Mayor of Bogotá and Visiting Scholar at NYU.
- October
23rd 2003: The Latin American Graduate Association,
the Colombia Program and the Latin American Studies Association presented,
"The Constitutional
Referendum in Colombia: Real Change or Just the Status Quo?"
a panel debate with Ambassador of Colombia Luis
Alberto Moreno, Director of the Center for Latin American
Studies Dr. Arturo
Valenzuela and Director of the Colombia Program, Mr.
Miguel Ceballos.
- November
24-25 2003: "Learning with Bogotá" Workshop. The Colombia
Program and the World Bank hosted the mayor of Bogotá, Colombia,
and experts from Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and
Boston to discuss the very successful and innovative Bogotá crime prevention
strategy from 1995 to 2003.
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September 20-21, 2004: The Local Dimensions of Security Policies:
Colombia’s National Strategy for Defense and Democratic Security
and the contribution of Local Government Security Policies. Georgetown
University Main Campus
The
Colombia Program, in a partnership with the Inter-American Dialogue
and the Center for Strategic and International Studies- CSIS, organized
a workshop in Washington DC (September 20th and 21st) on
THE LOCAL DIMENSION OF SECURITY POLICIES: Colombia’s National Strategy
for Defense and Democratic Security and the contribution of Local
Government Security Policies.
During a two-day conference held at Georgetown University, representatives
from Colombian local government, high-ranking officials from the Colombian
National Police and the Colombian Armed Forces, and members of Colombian
academia and other organizations met with representatives from the
US federal and local government and members of think-tanks here to
discuss many issues regarding the local dimension of President Uribe’s
National Democratic Security Strategy. The first day consisted of
five sessions and a presentation by US Ambassador to Colombia, William
B. Wood. Approximately 75 people participated during these sessions
where issues ranged from local security strategies in the United States,
Mexico, and Brazil to the implementation of local security strategies
in Colombia. In addition, General Jorge Daniel Castro, the Commander
General of the Colombian National Police and General Carlos Alberto
Ospina, the Commander General of the Colombian Army gave their analyses
on local security plans, policies and the Departamentos y Municipios
Seguros strategy. On the second day, Eduardo Zúñiga, the Governor
of Nariño; William Palacio, the Mayor of Turbo; Raúl Delgado, Mayor
of Pasto; Alfredo Rangel, the Executive Director of the Fundación
Seguridad y Democracia; Maria Isabel Gutiérrez, Director of the CISALVA
Institute at the Universidad of el Valle; and Sergio Fajardo, Mayor
of Medellín spoke on specific challenges and successes of citizen
oversight and on their different experiences as mayors and departmental
governors in their respective region of Colombia
- January
20th, 2006: “The revival of Medellin: citizen security
and demobilization policies”, Sergio Fajardo, Mayor
of Medellin, Alonso Salazar, Deputy Mayor Security, Medellin,
Gustavo Villegas, Director Peace and Reconciliation Program,
Medellin, Fernando Calado, IOM, Colombia
- March
14th, 2006: “Reparation
and Reconciliation in Colombia: the Road Ahead”,
Eduardo Pizarro President of the Colombian National Commission on
Reparation and Reconciliation http://www.cnrr.org.co/
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