[Mitai-announce] 4/5 (M): "Indigenous Responses to Conflict in Colombia"

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The MIT Western Hemisphere Project invites you to attend:


   On the Ground in Colombia:
   Indigenous Responses to Conflict & Displacement
   
   A discussion with Floro Tunubala & Ludivia Giraldo Diaz
   
   Moderated by Ted MacDonald (Harvard University)
   
   6:30 pm,  Monday,  April 5, 2004
   Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Harvard

 
Floro Tunubala, the first indigenous person ever to be a Governor in
Colombia, completed his term in the department of Cauca in December,
2003.  As governor, he developed proposals for the manual eradication
of coca.  In cooperation with six other governors in southern Colombia
whose departments were also targeted for aerial fumigation in the
US-funded Plan Colombia, he worked to foster alternative social
and economic development projects.

Ludivia Giraldo Diaz, a social psychologist from Cali, has used
psychosocial interventions and educational processes across Colombia
with groups of women and children, _campesinos_, Afro-Colombians,
and other communities of the displaced. From 1993 to 2000 she worked
with MINGA, the Association for Alternative Social Development, a
Bogota-based human rights organization with a strong regional presence.


Co-sponsored with the KSG Progressive Caucus, the KSG Latino Caucus,
Colombia Vive, Colombia Human Rights Network, and Coordinacion Colombia-
Europa-Estados Unidos.



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