Arguments, a program of lecture series

FRAGMENTOS, Space for Art and Memory, and the Dirección de Patrimonio Cultural de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia invite you to participate in Arguments, a space for philosophical reflection on conflict and barbarism.

FIRST LECTURE: A New Cycle of War in Colombia?
// By Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín (Colombia)

In his lecture, Gutiérrez will analyze the current state of the implementation of the peace accords in Colombia, examining the factors that could lead to a new cycle of political war, as well as those that may allow the country to avoid that path and consolidate the way to peace.

With its 2021 lecture series, FRAGMENTOS, Space of Art and Memory, and the Dirección de Patrimonio Cultural de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia; seeks to contribute to public debate with the dissemination of relevant theoretical approaches to understand the rise of violence, antagonisms, and authoritarianisms in today’s world; the challenges involved in the construction of peace, and the alternatives, as well as possibilities for the construction of more pluralistic and democratic political orders.

Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín has a Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Warsaw; a Master in Analysis of Contemporary Political, Economic and International Problems from the Institute of Advanced Studies for Development (IAED), and from the Externado University of Colombia; a Master in Mathematics from the National University of Colombia, and a B.A. in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogota). Currently, he is professor of Political Science at the National University of Colombia. His most recent book is A New Cycle of War in Colombia?

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