7pm, 50 George SquareProject Room 1.06
Chocolate of Peace – The persistence of Colombians in the search for peace.
[UoE Colombian Students - with the support of the Global Justice Academy]
Come and join us this Monday, 14th November, to watch the documentary Chocolate of Peace, and to have a conversation with Gwen Burnyeat, producer and co-director of the documentary. Gwen is currently a Wolfson PhD Scholar in Anthropology at University College London (UCL), researching the social history of the Colombian peace process, and she has worked with the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó for five years. After the screening, we will share a cup of Colombian chocolate, and Gwen will have a conversation with the audience about her experience producing the documentary (based on her master’s research at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia) and her insights about the peace negotiations undertaken in Colombia to put an end to one of the longest armed conflicts in the world. Gwen was close to the process of 'pedagogía para la paz' (pedagogy for peace) as a member of the platform Rodeemos el Diálogo (Let's us surround the dialogue) and was able to attend the FARC’s Tenth and last Conference, where guerrilla members gathered to discuss their expectations of the peace deal and their reintegration (her blog pieces about this experience can be read in Latin American Bureau).
Mon 14 November 2016
19:00 – 21:00 GMT
50 George Square
Project Room 1.06
University of Edinburgh - School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures