The Association for Social Research and Action (Nomadesc) has defended human rights in the port city of Buenaventura since 1999, when the Pacific and Farallones fronts of the Calima Block of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group began staging incursions in the area, leaving a trail of crime, theft, displacement and forced disappearance in their wake, all the way from Cali to Buenaventura. Continue reading Buenaventura: Displacement for a Competitive Economy
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Operation Dragon
In this operation, trade union leaders, human rights defenders and political leaders from Valle del Cauca were the target of an assassination plot and a smear campaign. Continue reading Operation Dragon
NOMADESC: 2014 – 2016
Among the most severe attacks against the Association for Social Research and Action (NOMADESC) between 2014 and 2016, the following are worthy of note: Continue reading NOMADESC: 2014 – 2016
Impunity – freedom from punishment
“What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.”
– Isabel Allende
Peoples’ Intercultural University: Towards a transformative, integral and participatory peace
For the Association for Social Research and Action (NOMADESC), education and research have been two transformative elements for resolving the armed conflict. Through its education strategy, Nomadesc has stimulated and accompanied different ways of teaching. Continue reading Peoples’ Intercultural University: Towards a transformative, integral and participatory peace