U.S. relations with Colombia
Officials from Colombia and the U.S. Department of State will be featured in the second of a two-day program focusing on relations between the two nations.
"Colombia/U.S. Relations: The War on Drugs, the Peace Process and Prospects for Human Rights" is cosponsored by the Yale Law School's Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights and the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS). The event, which began on Thursday, Nov. 30, and will continue on Friday, Dec. 1, is free and open to the public.
The event will examine the three issues that have dominated relations between Colombia and the United States during the last two decades -- drug trafficking, the armed conflict in Colombia and human rights. The symposium seeks to foster analysis of the issues central to Colombia's prospects for peace and stability, and to U.S. policy in the region.
The event opened at 4 p.m. on Thursday with a talk on "Colombia's Predicament: Drug Trafficking, Human Rights and the Peace Process" by Professor Catherine Le Grand of McGill University.
Friday's events will be held in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St.
The day will open at 10 a.m. with a panel titled "The War on Drugs," which will focus on the the political, social and economic consequences of the war on drugs, as well as the Clinton administration's financial aid package. Participants will include Luis Alberto Morena, Colombia's ambassador to the United States; James F. Mack, U.S. ambassador to Guyana and former director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Andean Affairs; Professor Juan Gabriel Tokatlian of the Universidad de San Andrés; and Professor Alvaro Camacho of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. The panel will be moderated by Joanne Mariner, deputy director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch.
At 1:30 p.m., there will be a panel on "The Peace Process," offering diverse perspectives on the peace talks between the Colombian administration and the two major guerrilla groups, the F.A.R.C and the E.L.N. The panelists will be Alex Lee, senior Colombia desk officer in the State Department's Office of Andean Affairs; Juan Gabriel Uribe, a member of the Colombian Senate and the nation's representative in the peace negotiations with the F.A.R.C.; Daniel García-Peña, journalist for El Tiempo and Colombia's former acting high commissioner for peace; and José Miguel Vivanco, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Americas Division. The moderator will be Gilbert M. Joseph, the Farnam Professor of History and chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at YCIAS.
The day will conclude at 4 p.m. with a talk on "Colombia's Importance for Latin America" by Francisco Zapata of El Colegio de México, who is currently a visiting professor at Yale.
For more information about the symposium, contact the Schell Center at (203) 432-7480 or conference coordinator Daniel Bonilla at daniel.bonilla@yale.edu.
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