The Colombian Truth Commission resulted from the 2016 Colombian Peace Accord and was innovative in various respects. It worked with victims of the country’s protracted civil war, both within Colombia and abroad, using an “extra-territorial” approach. For this outreach, the Commission used a networked structure with more than 100 volunteers who coordinated logistics to interview more than 2,000 victims. Cécile Mouly will present preliminary findings from a joint research project to map the volunteers in 24 countries who contributed to the work of the Truth Commission abroad and the network used to connect with each other. Maria Caterina (Cat) Gargano, peace studies doctoral student, will provide remarks as a discussant and the conversation will be moderated by Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, professor of the practice and director of the Peace Accords Matrix.
Mouly is professor and researcher at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Ecuador, and an expert in conflict analysis for the UN System Staff College and the UN Development Programme. She holds a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Cambridge.
This event will be held in person, with a Zoom option for those who cannot physically attend.
This event takes place within the framework of the Legacy Project at the University of Notre Dame, which seeks to preserve the digital archive of the Colombian Truth Commission, and provides unique sources of testimonies from more than 30,000 victims, witnesses and offenders of the 52-year long armed conflict.
This event is co-sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Modern Ireland, and the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, with the support of Humanity United.