Seminar

«There was no time for sadness»: Historical keys to understanding the peace process in Colombia

Natalia Sánchez Corrales

Teresa Cunha

March 14, 2018, 15h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

Framework

The National Center for Historical Memory’s (NCHM) purpose is to contribute to the comprehensive reparation and to the right to the truth for the victims of the Colombian armed conflict as well as society in general. Through narrative, cartographic, autobiographical and pedagogical exercises, CNMH researchers have produced a wide variety of documents (written and audiovisual) about the violent events that have occurred in different areas of the country. The documentary "There was no time for sadness" is a production that comments, in the voice of Colombian victims, academics and politicians, not only some of the most violent events of recent decades, but also their relationship with what have been called "The objective causes" of the Colombian conflict, (Deas, 1999, Guzmán Campos, Fals Borda, & Umaña Luna, 2005, Hylton, 2006, Montenegro & Posada, 2001, among others) and their relevance in the current peace process.

This version of history, although localized, fragmented, narrated in a multiplicity of voices, is also an official version and, therefore, inhabited by an infinity of silences. For this reason, we have proposed the task of enunciating some historical, economic and political keys that could shed light on what is not said in the documentary, not to have a complete version, but precisely to insist on the situated, interested and contextual of each one of the readings that we will do in this space about what the conflict and the peace process in Colombia can become or mean.

 

Bio notes

Teresa Cunha, born in Huambo, Angola, Teresa Cunha holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. She is a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra where she lectures in several PhD courses; coordinates the Humanities, Migrations and Peace Studies Research Group (NHUMEP), the Gender Workshop Series and Epistemologies of the South Workshops Series as well as the Epistemologies of the South Research Programme. She is an associate researcher at CODESRIA and the Centre for African Studies of Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. In 2017, she was awarded the Order of Timor-Leste by the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. Her research interests are feminisms and post-colonialisms; women post-war transition, peace and memories; other economies and feminist economies; human rights. She has published several books and scientific articles in several countries and languages, such as: Women InPower Women. Other Economies created and led by women from the non-imperial South; Never Trust Sindarela. Feminisms, Post-colonialism, Mozambique and Timor-Leste; Essays on Democracy. Justice, dignity and well-being; They in the South and in the North; Women's Voices of Timor; Timor-Leste: Courage Observation Chronicle; Feto Timor Nain Hitu - Seven Women of Timor »; Walk Through Other Roads and Roots of Participation.

 

References

CNMH. (28 de Enero de 2014). http://www.centrodememoriahistorica.gov.co. Source: http://www.centrodememoriahistorica.gov.co/somos-cnmh/que-es-el-centro-nacional-de-memoria-historica

Deas, M. (1999). Intercambios violentos. Reflexiones sobre la violencia política. Bogotá: Taurus/Pensamiento.

Guzmán Campos, G., Fals Borda, O., & Umaña Luna, E. (2005). La violencia en Colombia. Bogotá: Taurus.

Hylton, F. (2006). Evil Hour in Colombia. London: Verso.

Montenegro, A., & Posada, C. (2001). La violencia en Colombia. Bogotá: Alfaomega.