Cartagena, May 6, 2009. “For us the end goal of the Reintegration Policy is not a cemetery or a prison. It is peace,” said President Alvaro Uribe Velez during his closing remarks at the first International Congress on Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration, held in Cartagena and attended by 1,400 people and delegations from more than 40 countries.
For three days, experts and technicians from coun...
Cartagena, May 6, 2009. Arriving in the city of Cartagena to participate in the first International Congress on Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration, the President of Guatemala, Álvaro Colom Caballeros, asked the FARC, a Colombian guerrilla group, to free all the kidnap victims in Colombia in order to advance toward peace.
“I honestly believe that the FARC has the ball. I believe, for example, ...
Cartagena, May 6, 2009 – At the closing of the International Congress on Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (CIDDR), three experts - William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Luís Alfonso Hoyos, Colombian High Presidential Counselor for Social Action and International Cooperation, and Lena Sundh, Ambassador for Conflict Management at the Swedish...
Cartagena, May 6, 2009 – Bearing in mind shared history between Colombia and the Philippines and challenges faced in common in the area of peace, the Office of the Colombian High Commissioner of Peace (OACP) and the Office of the Presidential Advisor for the Peace Process in the Philippines (OPAPP) signed a letter of intent. The letter establishes mutual support in the area of technical and strategic coope...
Cartagena, May 5, 2009 – After the panel on Security and Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR), the following topics were discussed at the round tables:
1. Interim Stabilization Measures – ISMs.
2. Links between Interim Measures, Security Sector Reform (SSR), and DDR within broader peacebuilding goals
3. Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reinsertion
4. Organized Crime and Delinquency
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