09:30 - 10:00

Registration

 

10:00 - 10:15

Opening statement by Organizing Committee

 

 

PART 1: Key-note speakers on the Colombian case

 

10:15 - 10:45

Dr. Andrei Suarez-Gomez, Research Associate Oxford and Sussex, Lecturer at Los Andes University

Introduction to the Colombian armed conflict and peace process

 

10:50 - 11:20

Dr. Claudia Lopez, Colombian Senator for the Green Alliance

Analysis of structural challenges of the Colombian education sector and proposed educational reforms in contribution to peace

 

11:25 - 11:55

Dr. Julian De Zubiria, Founder of the movement for dialogic pedagogy in Colombia, consultant for UNDP and the Colombian Ministry of Education

Current state of the Colombian Education and proposed changes in contribution to peace : a pedagogical perspective

 

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

 

 

PART 2: Panel on lessons learned from other experiences of educational reform in post-agreement societies 

 

13:00 – 13:15

Chair Address by Dr. Hilary Cremin, Director of Studies for Education at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridgee

 

13:15 – 13:45

Professor Tejendra Pherali, Senior Lecturer in Education and International Development, UCL-IOE

Influence of political-economic agendas on education: the case of Nepal

 

13:45 – 14:15

Professor Julia Paulson, Programme Leader, Department of Education, Bath Spa University

Relationship between truth commissions, historical memory and the education: the case of Peru 

 

14:15 – 14:45

Dr. Jeremy Cunnindgham, Author “Conflict Transformation through School: A curriculum for sustainable peace”

Relationship between education and community cohesion: the case of northern Uganda

 

14:45 – 15:15

Professor Alicia Cabezudo, Emeritus professor at the School of Education, University of Rosario, Argentina and UNESCO CHAIR on Culture of Peace and Human Rights, University of Buenos Aires.

Pedagogies and practices for peace (curriculum, pedagogy, and teacher training)

 

 

15:15 – 15:30

Coffee break

 

15:35 – 16:00

Response to panel by Dr. Lopez and Dr. De Zubiria

 

16:00 – 16:45

Q&A

 

16:45 – 17:00

Closing Remarks by Organizing Committee