Corte IDH Caso Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo vs. Colombia
Corte IDH Caso Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CAJAR) vs. Colombia Autores y Autoras: Annelinne Espitia Pérez, Dayana Ropero Montaño, Charles Pérez Florez, Camilo González García, Artur Granadillo Vital. En el video encontramos la explicación de la sentencia del 18 de octubre de 2023, donde la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos declaró responsable al […]
Development in Reverse: The True Effects of Armed Conflict
University for Peace graduate student Andres Jimenez comments on the true costs of war through the lens of Paul Collier’s concept of “development in reverse”. Looking at conflict from a socioeconomic standpoint and recognizing the realities of armed conflict, Jimenez analyzes both the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and peacekeeping operations as part of what he deems necessary interventions to prevent widespread violence and civil war.
Education for young people in armed conflict
This paper examines the impact of war on the education of young people in armed conflict and also give a situational analysis of youths and children in armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Colombia and Cambodia. The paper also looks at how the life of youth and children can be restored through reintegration activities, provision of formal and informal education, employment, facilitation of psychosocial training and vocational training opportunities. It provides a gender perspective of how girls and women are mostly vulnerable in conflict times and stresses the implementation of the right to education instruments such as the convention on the Right of the Child, the Human Right Convention, MDG-2, Refugee convention of 1951 and the EFA framework to enhance the education of war affected young people.