Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society rejected it in a polarising referendum, amid an emotive disinformation campaign. Gwen Burnyeat joined the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, the government institution responsible for peace negotiations, to observe and participate in an innovative 'peace pedagogy' strategy to explain the agreement to Colombian society.

We are delighted to invite you to our seventh event of Michaelmas 2022, which will take place on Tuesday, November 22, in the Old Library at All Souls College at 8:30pm. As always, there will be a wine reception prior to the event, starting at 8pm. The speaker will be Neta Crawford, who will be speaking to us on ‘The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War’.