2019 Colombia Symposium Agenda Saturday, 29 June – Participant Arrival

Evening: Informal Dinner (Optional)

Sunday, 30 June – Welcome Morning:

Orientation and Community Building Setting Expectations Creative Learning Staff

Evening: City Tour Welcome Dinner, Regimiento San Jorge (Calvary School) Keynote

Willian Kruvant, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Creative Learning Keynote

General Robinson Alexander Ramírez, Commander of Education and Doctrine, University of the Colombian Army (invited)

Monday, 1 July – Introduction: Defining Stabilization Morning: Welcoming Remarks Charito Kruvant, Founder and Chairperson of Creative Associates

Colombia Stabilization Introduction Stabilization in Action: The Colombian Case

Teniente Coronel David Andres Rodriguez, President of the Armed Forces National Network of Human Rights, Internation Humanitarian Law and International Law of Armed Conflicts (DICA), Director of Escuela de Equitacion del Ejercito, and Former Director of the Masters in Human Rights and DICA of the Escuela Superior de Guerra

The Political Economy of Stabilization in Colombia Gabriel Murillo, Distinguished Professor (r), Former Chair of the Political Science Department, Los Andes University

Evening: Defining Stabilization

Colonel Christopher Holshek, U.S. Army Civil Affairs (Ret.), Senior Fellow, Alliance for Peacebuilding and Senior Civil-Military Advisor, Narrative Strategies

South Sudan Simulation Creative Learning Staff

Tuesday, 2 July – Forum on the Pillars of Stabilization in Colombia; Day 1 – Political Economy for Peace

Morning: Welcoming Remarks

Teniente Coronel David Andres Rodriguez, Academic Co-Coordinator; Monica Osorio, Communications Coordinator, CINEP

Keynote General Nicasio Martínez, Commander in Chief of the Colombian Army

Keynote Dr. Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez, Former Presiding Member of the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation of Colombia; Board of Directors of the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims

Panel: “Vectors of the Political Economy for Peace” Joshua Mitrotti, Former Director of the Colombian Agency for Reincorporation and Normalization; María Victoria Llorente, Director, Fundación Ideas para la Paz; Dr. Javier Gustavo Rincón, Director of the Military Criminal Law Observatory at the Javeriana Pontifical University, Relaciones civic militares; Dr. Rafael Puyana Martínez-Villalba, Sectorial Subdirector of the National Planning Department of Colombia (invited); Alejandro Reyes Posada, Lawyer and Sociologist, Expert in Land Reform and Land Restitution in Colombia; His Excellency Ambassador Ophdahl, Norway Embassy in Colombia (invited)

Keynote Colonel Christopher Holshek, Former Senior U.S. Military Observer and Chief, Civil-Military Coordination at the United Nations Mission in Liberia

Wednesday, 3 July – Forum on the Pillars of Stabilization in Colombia; Day 2 – New Institutions and Society

Morning: Welcoming remarks Tte. Colonel David Rodriguez; Monica Orsorio

Keynote Father Francisco De Roux, Director of the Truth Commission

Keynote Rodrigo Uprimmy, Former member of the Constitutional Court, Former Director of DeJusticia

Panel: “Vectors for Stabilization in New Institutions and Society” Gonzalo Sánchez, Former Director of the Historical Memory Center (invited); Diego Bautista, Former Adviser for the High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia; Brig. General Javier Ayala Amaya, Head of the Colombian National Army Integral Legal Department (invited); General Henry Medina, Presiding member of La Paz Querida; Paula Andrea Monroy, Director of the Foundation for Reconciliation; Santiago Sánchez, Director RedProdePaz

Keynote Charito Kruvant, Founder and Chairperson of Creative Associates (invited)

Keynote Ángela Salazar, Commissioner, Truth Commission (invited)

Thursday, 4 July – Safe and Secure Environments Morning:

Morning Coffee Groups Creative Learning Staff

South Sudan Simulation: Security-Lens Creative Learning Staff

Evening: Security Sector Reform in Colombia

Teniente Coronel Oscar Alejandro Garzón, Commander of the Colombian National Army Special Operations Planning Command (invited)

Friday, 5 July – Governance Civil Society Morning:

Morning Coffee Groups Creative Learning Staff

Theories of Governance & Social Cohesion Dr. Hind Kabawat,Deputy Head, Syrian Negotiations Commission Office (SNC), Geneva Mission; Adjunct Professor & Director of Interfaith Peacebuilding and Instructor, George Mason University; Former Member of the High Negotiation Committee at the Syrian Peace Talks

Evening: Transitional Governance and Political Participation in Colombia

Gabriel Murillo, Distinguished Professor (r)/ Former Chair of the Political Science Department, Los Andres University

Saturday, 6 July – Group Outing Morning:

Forum Debrief Creative Learning Staff and Academic Co-Coordinators

Group Outing TBD

Sunday, 7 July – No Sessions Monday, 8 July – Economics and Social Well Being

Morning: Morning Coffee Groups

Creative Learning Staff

Environmental and Social Well-being Dr. Bridgitte Baptiste, Director of the Humboldt Institute in Colombia (invited)

Evening: Building Sustainable Economies / Programming for Social Well-being TBD

Alexandre Marc, Chief Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group, The World Bank; AND/OR Creative Associates International Speaker

Raqqa Simulation: Building Economies in the Worst Cases Creative Learning Staff & TBD

Tuesday, 9 July – Rule of Law Morning:

Morning Coffee Groups Creative Learning Staff

Transitional Justice & Rule of Law: Dr. Javier Gustavo Rincón, Director of the Military Law Observatory at the Javeriana Pontifical University

Justice Case Studies Creative Learning Staff

Evening: Victims’ Justice and Reparations in Colombia’s Transition Exercise: Amnesty in Colombia Simulation

Creative Learning Staff; School of Law, Los Andes University

Exercise: Amnesty in Colombia Simulation Local Speaker & Creative Learning Staff

Wednesday, 10 July – DDR and Restoring the Use of Force to the State Morning:

Morning Coffee Groups Creative Learning Staff

DDR and Security Sector Reform Dean Piedmont, Senior Business Development Advisor on Security Transitions, Creative Associates International, Creative Associates

Evening: DDR and Security Sector Reform (Continued)

Dean Piedmont

Exercise: Practical DDR Simulation Dean Piedmont; Creative Associates & Creative Learning Staff

Thursday, 11 July – Peacebuilding on the Ground Morning:

Morning Coffee Groups Creative Learning Staff

Territorial Peace Building Activities in Colombia Santiago Sanchez, Director of RedProdePaz; community leaders presenting successful experiences on peace building in the most affected regions of Colombia

Evening: Civic-Military Relations

Victor Barrera, Coordinator of the Conflict, State and Development Team, Centro de Investigacion y Educacion Popular (CINEP) Colombian National Police Colombian Army; Colombian National Police; Colombian Army

Friday, 12 July – Trauma-Informed Programming Morning:

Trauma-Informed Programming Colombian Army Psychologist

Exercise: Trauma-Informed Programming Creative Learning Staff

Evening: Building Peace with Traumatized Populations in Colombia

Padre Leonel Narvaez (PhD), President of the Foundation for Reconciliation

Saturday, 13 July – No Sessions Sunday, 14 July – No Sessions Monday, 15 July – Reconciliation and Culture of Peace

Morning: Scope & Limitations of Reconciliation as a Peacebuilding Process

Dr. Valerie Rosoux, Professor of International Negotiation, University of Louvain

Evening: Scope & Limitations of Reconciliation as a Peacebuilding Process (Continued)

Dr. Valerie Rosoux

Building Culture of Peace Dr. Paula Comellas Angulo, Professor of Legal Theory and Ethics, Los Andes University, PhD in Transnational Commerce Law from Deusto De Bilbao University

Tuesday, 16 July – Finance Mechanisms for Stabilization and Peacebuilding Morning:

Introduction to Tracking Illicit Finance Flows John Prendergast, Founder, The Enough Project

Evening: Innovative Finance Mechanisms for Stabilization – What’s Working in Colombia?

Luc Lapointe, CEO & Founder, The Blended Capital lab, and Regional Lead for Impact 2030

Business and Peace TBD

Wednesday, 17 July – Capstone Multilateral Simulation Morning:

Multilateral Simulation Creative Learning Staff

Evening: Multilateral Simulation

Creative Learning Staff

Thursday, 18 July – Simulation Debrief and Final Workshop: Design a Roadmap for Coordinated Stabilization

Morning: Simulation Completion & Debrief

Creative Learning Staff & Academic Co-Coordinators

Evening: Final Project Workshop Launch

Creative Learning Staff

Friday, 19 July – Final Project Workshop: Design a Roadmap for Coordinated Stabilization (Continued)

Morning: Final Project Workshop (continued)

Creative Learning Staff Evening:

Final Project Workshop (continued) Final Project Workshop Presentations

Creative Learning Staff

Graduation Dinner and Celebration Saturday, 20 July – Participant Departure

Father Leonel Narváez (PhD) President, Fundación para la

Reconciliación

Father Francisco De Roux President, Colombian Truth

Commission

Dr. Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez

Presiding Member, National Commission for Reparation and

Reconciliation of Colombia (CNRR) as a delegate of the Vice President

of Colombia 2005-2009

Major General Nicacio Martínez-

Espinel Commander, Colombian National

Army

Dr. Rodrigo Uprimny

Former Member of the Constitutional Court; Former Director of DeJusticia

2019 Symposium Faculty Keynote Speakers

Additional Faculty

Academic Co-Coordinator

Gabriel Murillo Castano

Distinguished Professor (r)/Former

Chair, Political Science Department, Los Andes University

Academic Co-Coordinator

Tte. Coronel David Andres Rodriguez

President of the Armed Forces

National Network of Human Rights, International

Humanitarian Law and International Law of

Armed Conflicts (DICA)

Dr. Hind Kabawat

Deputy Head, Syrian Negotiations

Commission Office (SNC), Geneva Mission; Former

Member of the High Negotiation

Committee at the Syrian Peace Talks

Maria Victoria

Llorente Director, Fundacion Ideas para la Paz

John Prendergast

(invited) Founding Director,

The Enough Project

Joshua Mitrotti Former General

Director, Colombian Agency for

Reintegration

General Javier Ayala

Amaya Head of the

Colombian National Army Integral Legal

Department

Dean Piedmont Senior Business

Development Advisor on Security

Transitions, Creative Associates

International

Dr. Valerie Rosoux

Professor of International

Negotiation, University of Louvain

Dr. Javier Gustavo

Rincón Director, Military

Criminal Law Observatory,

Javeriana Pontifical University

Luc Lapointe

CEO & Founder, The Blended Capital Lab

Dr. Paula Comellas

Angulo Professor of Legal Theory and Ethics,

Los Andes University

Col. Christopher

Holshek (r) Former Senior U.S.

Military Observer and Chief, Civil-Military

Coordination, United Nations Mission in

Liberia

Cameron M.

Chisholm Vice President,

Creative Learning; Founder, IPSI;

Adjunct Faculty, The George Washington

University

Paula Andrea

Monroy Director, Fundación

para la Reconciliación

Diego Bautista Former Adviser, Colombian High

Commissioner for Peace Office

MEMBERS OF THE SYMPOSIUM’S CONSORTIUM

Universidad Javeriana Observatorio de Derecho Militar

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