Fieldwork in Colombia, June 2017

Sévane Garibian and Zahira Aragüete-Toribio

Fieldwork was conducted with different institutional and civil society actors in the city of Bogotá, from 4 to 18 June 2017, on the subject of the recent peace accords signed at the end of 2016.

Meetings were held with members of organizations such as the Colectivo Jurídico Orlando Fals Borda, the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas, ASFADDES, Hijos e Hijas por la Memoria y contra la Impunidad and members of the Jesuist community in Bogotá. Moreover, it also included meetings with members of institutions such as the Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica, the Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, the Fiscalía General de la Nación and the Comisión de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas in Colombia.

The field trip also included visits to the Centro de Memoria, Paz y Reconcialiación and other memory sites in Bogotá.