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Peace with the environment: Community perspectives from the Andean-Amazon foothills of Colombia

Peh, Lorenz Rodrigo LU (2021) MIDM19 20211
Department of Human Geography
LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management
Abstract
Half a decade after the signing of the peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP, the country continues to suffer from persisting violence and the need to address environmental destruction is more evident than ever. This research builds on a post-development critique of current peace efforts and responds to the call for including local perspectives in knowledge creation and development practice. By using photo-elicitation as data collection method, the study combines participatory and visual methods in order to explore alternative understandings of the relationship between the environment and peace, as well as resulting strategies by community-based organisations. The department of Caquetá serves as a particularly... (More)
Half a decade after the signing of the peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP, the country continues to suffer from persisting violence and the need to address environmental destruction is more evident than ever. This research builds on a post-development critique of current peace efforts and responds to the call for including local perspectives in knowledge creation and development practice. By using photo-elicitation as data collection method, the study combines participatory and visual methods in order to explore alternative understandings of the relationship between the environment and peace, as well as resulting strategies by community-based organisations. The department of Caquetá serves as a particularly interesting case for exploring socio-environmental challenges due to its geographic location between the Andean foothills and the Amazon rainforest, and its historical importance for the conflict and peace processes. The resulting community-informed understanding highlights the importance integrating the environment into a vision of peace for local development strategies. Findings from this study therefore offer important theoretical and methodological insights for the growing field of environmental peacebuilding, and provide hope that constructing peace together with the environment can be possible. (Less)
Abstract (Spanish)
Media década después de la firma del acuerdo de paz entre el Gobierno de Colombia y las FARC-EP, el país sigue sufriendo una violencia persistente y la necesidad de abordar la destrucción del medioambiente es más evidente que nunca. La presente investigación se basa en una crítica del posdesarrollo a los esfuerzos actuales y responde a la llamada a incluir las perspectivas locales en la creación de conocimiento y las prácticas de desarrollo. Al utilizar la foto-elicitación como método de recogida de datos, el estudio combina métodos participativos y visuales con el fin de explorar entendimientos alternativos de la relación entre el medioambiente y la paz, así como las estrategias resultantes de las organizaciones comunitarias. El... (More)
Media década después de la firma del acuerdo de paz entre el Gobierno de Colombia y las FARC-EP, el país sigue sufriendo una violencia persistente y la necesidad de abordar la destrucción del medioambiente es más evidente que nunca. La presente investigación se basa en una crítica del posdesarrollo a los esfuerzos actuales y responde a la llamada a incluir las perspectivas locales en la creación de conocimiento y las prácticas de desarrollo. Al utilizar la foto-elicitación como método de recogida de datos, el estudio combina métodos participativos y visuales con el fin de explorar entendimientos alternativos de la relación entre el medioambiente y la paz, así como las estrategias resultantes de las organizaciones comunitarias. El departamento del Caquetá presenta un caso particularmente interesante para explorar los desafíos socioambientales debido a su ubicación geográfica entre el piedemonte andino y la selva amazónica, y por su importancia histórica para el conflicto y los procesos de paz. El entendimiento comunitario resultante pone de manifiesto la importancia de integrar el medio ambiente en una visión de paz para las estrategias de desarrollo local. Los resultados de este estudio ofrecen importantes perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas para el creciente campo de la paz ambiental, y brindan la esperanza de que la construcción de la paz junto con el medioambiente sí es posible. (Less)
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author
Peh, Lorenz Rodrigo LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
Paz junto con el medioambiente: Perspectivas comunitarias desde el piedemonte Andino-Amazónico colombiano
course
MIDM19 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Buen vivir, Caquetá, Colombia, community perspectives, conflict, environment, environmental peacebuilding, participatory methods, peace, social ecology, visual methods
language
English
id
9062648
date added to LUP
2021-09-09 11:55:37
date last changed
2021-09-09 13:12:33
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  abstract     = {{Half a decade after the signing of the peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP, the country continues to suffer from persisting violence and the need to address environmental destruction is more evident than ever. This research builds on a post-development critique of current peace efforts and responds to the call for including local perspectives in knowledge creation and development practice. By using photo-elicitation as data collection method, the study combines participatory and visual methods in order to explore alternative understandings of the relationship between the environment and peace, as well as resulting strategies by community-based organisations. The department of Caquetá serves as a particularly interesting case for exploring socio-environmental challenges due to its geographic location between the Andean foothills and the Amazon rainforest, and its historical importance for the conflict and peace processes. The resulting community-informed understanding highlights the importance integrating the environment into a vision of peace for local development strategies. Findings from this study therefore offer important theoretical and methodological insights for the growing field of environmental peacebuilding, and provide hope that constructing peace together with the environment can be possible.}},
  author       = {{Peh, Lorenz Rodrigo}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Peace with the environment: Community perspectives from the Andean-Amazon foothills of Colombia}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}