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