• Opening lecture
• Macro Panel
• Day 1
  • Round-table 1
  • Round-table 2
  • Round-table 3
• Micro Panel
• Day 2
  • Round-table 1
  • Round-table 2
  • Round-table 3
• Closing lecture

Marc Chernick

Dr. Marc Chernick is Director of the Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of the Practice of Conflict Resolution and Human Rights in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He also serves as Director of the Georgetown- Los Andes Program on Conflict Resolution and Human Rights at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Before joining the faculty at Georgetown in 1996, he served as Director of the Latin American Studies program and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Earlier he was the Assistant Director of the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University. He worked for several years as a professor at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá and as a Visiting Professor/ Researcher at FLACSO-Ecuador in Quito and the Institute of Peruvian Studies in Lima. Chernick has written widely on issues of violence, guerrilla insurgencies and peacemaking in Colombia and in Latin America, and has served as a consultant to the World Bank, UNDP, USAID, the governments of Norway, Sweden and Switzerland and other international organizations and NGOs on issues of human rights, democracy, early warning and conflict resolution in Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America and Africa. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

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Borja Paladini Adell

Building Specialist peace and governance with extensive experience in promoting processes of democratic dialogue as a means of transforming conflict to forge democratic political processes, it has been distinguished for advice on aspects of political leadership, technical and managerial skills in building peace combined with a solid experience in the field. He has served as a consultant in UNDP Colombia, UNDP Honduras, Berghof Foundation for Conflict Transformation, Peace Alliance Norway, Foundation for Peace, among others, is currently adviser to the Ministry for Post-Conflict and UNDP Colombia.

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Diego Bautista

Industrial engineer and project specialist at the University of the Andes, master in public and social policies Pompeu Fabra University and John Hopkins University. Advisor on public policy and development, with long experience in the public sector, occupying management positions and serving as advisor in the government.
Recently he has worked as a project manager in Semana Foundation. He has been linked to the National Planning Department in the Directorate of Investment and Public Finance and the Directorate of Public Policy Evaluation; he was a consultant on issues related to governance for the IDB, CAF and USAID. Linked to three programs of high relevance in the Colombian context, focused on institutional reforms for competitiveness, institutional strengthening and technical support for productive development and prospective document Visión Colombia 2019. Current advisor to the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace in Peace territorial and Institutional Architecture for Post-Conflict.