CREARC-
Corporation for Analysis, Research, Peace Education and Conflict
Resolution
“Together building peace”
I honor the place inside of you where the whole universe resides.
I honor the place where you are in that place inside of
you and I am in that place inside of me, we are one.
Namaste
CREARC -
Corporation for Analysis, Research, Peace Education, and Conflict Resolution. (Spanish
acronym for Corporación para el Análisis, la Investigación, la Educación para
la Paz y la Resolución de Conflictos).
It is a non
profit private legal entity, we do peace field investigation, peace education,
peace building, fundamental rights, peaceful transformation of conflicts and
disputes.
VISION
Social justice
based on cooperation, human development, non violence, peaceful coexistence and
reconciliation.
MISSION
To participate
in the construction of a peace culture through analysis, education and peace
investigation.
OBJECTIVES
Some of our
objectives are:
* To negotiate
and realize social, educative, and community projects.
* To promote
analysis and investigation of law, Education theories, Human Rights and Peace,
* To
collaborate in the development of alternative methods to solve conflicts.
* To create
informal education training events within CREARC work areas.
* To publish
the investigation monographs and CREARC project results.
* To lead
forums, symposiums, working days, meetings, congresses, conferences, networks
etc.
PRINCIPLES
Quality,
service, people, attention, self maintenance, opportunity and social
responsibility.
VALUES
Some of our values are:
Affirmation,
self esteem, confidence, communication, mutual respect, understanding,
leadership, cooperation, social projection, creativity, organization, honesty
and transparency, commitment, plurality, interdisciplinary work and critical
spirit.
Translation: Bonnie Klassen
(2003)
and Alba Luz Arrieta Cabrales (2005)
and Alba Luz Arrieta Cabrales (2005)
INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS
1. CENTER FOR CONCILIATION
Approved by Resolution 597 of 2003
This Project of
the Corporation for the Analysis, the Investigation, the Education for Peace
and Conflict Resolution, CREARC explores the interaction with the social
reality through reconciliation, conciliation, mediation, and other alternative
means of conflict resolution.
This is a
project of CREARC that seeks to interact with social realities through
conciliation and other alternative means to solve tensions.
What we Offer
Services in conciliation and mediation.
Analysis, consulting
services, advice, investigation and training in peaceful conflict
transformation.
Support for alternative
conflict resolution in Colombia and in other countries.
Strengths
- Highly trained personnel qualified in the areas of conciliation and
mediation.
- Support from an
interdisciplinary team
- Impartiality and clear
ethics in the treatment of conflicts.
- The will to seek peaceful
solutions
- Efficiency and economy in
resolving conflicts
- Honesty and transparency
- Creation of spaces for
dialogue
- Conciliation and
mediation that humanize the conflict
- Dignity in the lawyer’s
profession
- The different parties in
the conflict manage the facts and the lawyers manage the legal aspects.
Conciliation
Conciliation is
a mechanism for resolving conflicts through which the people involved
themselves create solutions for their differences with the help of a trained
neutral third party, called a conciliator.
Request for Conciliation
A document is addressed to the Center for Conciliation CREARC
This document should include:
- the name and home address of the person making the request
This document should include:
- the name and home address of the person making the request
- the name and home address
of the other parties in the conflict
- the name of the
representatives of the parties, if that be the case
- a description of the
facts, events and differences that need to be conciliated
- the subject of the
conciliation
- the amount
- payment of the audience
Translation: Bonnie Klassen - 2003
2. RESEARCH PEACE CENTRE
The Research
Peace Centre is a project of studies and popularization of CREARC.
It analyzes the
conflict and its causes, the globalization and its effects, from a
multidisciplinary perspective and it also outlines alternatives in the public
policies as a form of peaceful transformation of the structural conflict.
It has a work
proposal that includes a research projects, publications and a
documentation centre.
The Research
Peace Centre is a project of studies and popularisation of the Corporation for
the Analysis, Research, Education for Peace and Conflict Resolution, CREARC.
We analyze the
conflict and their causes, the globalisation system and its effects,
development and tendencies, from a multidisciplinary perspective of the
investigation for the peace and we seek to outline alternatives in public
policies as a form of peaceful transformation of the structural conflict.
Our work
proposal includes research projects, a publications and a documentation centre.
AREAS OF WORK
1. RESEARCH PROJECTS
2. PUBLICATIONS
3. DOCUMENTATION CENTRE
RESEARCH PROJECTS
The basic research lines are the following ones:
Conflict Theory
Conflict resolution and
peace building
Peace education and peace
culture
Gender, Conflict and
Peacebuilding
Alternative mechanisms of
conflict resolution
Alternative dispute
resolution
Multiculturalism and conflict
Resolving conflicts of
ethnic groups in Colombia
DOCUMENTATION CENTRE
CREARC has a
centre of documentary resources specialized on texts of theory of the conflict,
peace building, reconciliation, arbitration, negotiation, transaction, mediation,
research for the peace, education for peace, human rights, violence,
alternative methods of conflict resolution, and a bibliography on conflict
resolution. Most of the texts are in Spanish and some of them are in English or
French.
The Documentation Centre is divided in three sections:
* File of
Documents: With literature from different organisms, institutions, and
national and international Non Governmental Organizations.
* File of
Magazines: With magazines selected thematically.
* Library: 600
volumes, organized in thematic sections.
Public and free access
Call for a previous
appointment
No borrow books service
Translation: Alba Luz Arrieta Cabrales - 2005
3. CONSULTATION ON CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION
It is the area of CREARC
through which we offer legal services of consultation and representation
regarding people and legal status. It also provides consults at psychological
and social levels and on conflict transformation.
4. SEMINAR OF EDUCATION FOR PEACE
The Seminar of
Education for Peace, CREARC, gathers people coming from different fields of the
formal, not formal and informal education. Education for peace, according to
our understanding, is a liberating education which encourages social action,
peace and justice.
The Seminar
enables people with skills to face intolerance, conformism, ethnocentrism and
other attitudes that contribute to perpetuate the structural, cultural and
direct violence, in a peaceful way.
OBJECTIVES
The specific objectives are to:
* Promote
consciousness on the need of practicing Conflict Transformation and the
building of a peace culture.
* Raise
interest and sensitiveness towards the need of educating on and for the peace,
human rights and development.
* Contribute to
the formation of educators and multipliers of groups of education on peace.
AIMED AT
The Seminar on
Education for Peace CREARC is intended for: students, professionals of any
discipline, conciliators in law and in equity and mediators, community leaders,
judges, magistrates, solicitors, teachers, governmental and nongovernmental
organizations, schools, institutions education and schools, businesses and
anyone interested in the proposed themes.
The Seminar on
Education for Peace CREARC, works at the headquarters of CREARC with a minimum
of three and a maximum of ten people.
At the
headquarters of the organizations, communities or firms concerned of seminars
with groups of 10 up to 50 people depending on the topic to be developed.
We also do big
events on the proposed themes.
METHODOLOGY, AND LINE LEVEL TRAINING SEMINAR FOR PEACE EDUCATION CREARC
The Seminar on
Education for Peace CREARC from formal education, popular and community
approached from different methodologies (course, seminar, conference -
workshop, workshop, video forum, discussion group, meeting, conference forum
and others), levels (introductory, Basic and deepening) the following types of
training:
A. Conflict Theory
Conflict Theory
Conflict Theory
Game Theory
Gender and conflict
Social conflict. cultural,
ethnic, religious and environmental.
Elements and basic tools
for conflict analysis
Management, resolution and
peaceful conflict transformation
Communication in conflict
transformation
Reconstruction and
resolution
Forgiveness and
reconciliation
B. Peace research
Art and Peace
Education for peace
Culture of peace
Nonviolence and pacifism
Multiculturalism, gender
and peace building
C. Peace research
D. Alternative methods of dispute resolution
Alternative methods of Conflict Resolution (Basic Course)
Alternative methods of
Conflict Resolution (Advanced Course)
Alternative methods of
Conflict Resolution (Compared Rights)
Alternative methods of
Conflict Resolution, Psycho-social and Interdisciplinary aspects
Conciliation and mediation
techniques
Jurisprudence and doctrine
in conciliation
Negotiation
Transaction
Mediation (family, civil,
community, labor and organizational)
Mediation models and
techniques
Community Justice: Justices
of the Peace and Reconciliation in equity
Self-righteousness:
Postmodernism, Law and Legal Pluralism and Peaceful Conflict Resolution
Colombian ethnic groups
Restorative justice and
victimology
Transitional Justice
E. Human Rights
Introduction and evolution of human rights
Classification of human
rights, duties and obligations
Human dignity and human
rights
Fundamental Rights
Introduction to economic,
social and cultural
International humanitarian
law
Mechanisms to protect human
rights
Exercising the right of
defense
TEACHERS, FACILITATORS AND WORKSHOP
The SEMINAR OF
PEACE EDUCATION CREARC has a team of professionals in conciliation, mediation
and conflict resolution theory and practice EXPERIENCE thematic lines of the
Seminar and / or national and international experts invited by the Seminar on
Education for Peace CREARC.
COSTS, TIME AND INTENSITY
Each course,
seminar, conference - workshop, workshop or activity programmed by the Seminar
on Education for Peace to be disclosed CREARC offers information on current costs
and times according to the level and line training.
Refer to Bulletin Board Events:
More information: crearc@gmail.com
Telephone: 5613286, 2830203 and 3153397145
Bogota D.C. - Colombia
Translation: Alba Luz Arrieta Cabrales - 2005
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
CREARC - Corporation for Analysis, Research, Peace Education and Conflict Resolution
Phone
(0571) 2830203- (0571) 5613286
3153397145
Fax
(0571) 5613286
E- mail
crearc@gmail.com
Web
Bogotá D.C. - Colombia - Suramérica
Translation: Bonnie Klassen
(2003)
and Alba Luz Arrieta Cabrales (2005)
