Narratives Beyond Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
A panel will examine how narratives long associated with conflict in Colombia can be reshaped though three different but complementary perspectives.
In this Research Café hosted by the Centre for International Education (CIE), a panel of experts will examine how narratives long associated with conflict in Colombia can be reshaped through three complementary perspectives:
- Reparations and institutional innovation
- Cultural and urban transformation, and
- Knowledge, learning and education.
The first study, by Sonia Tequia, explores how restorative sanctions and TOAR projects can be governed within Colombia’s fiscal constraints. It proposes a financial and intersectoral framework to support transitional justice without generating new public debt, while promoting productive reactivation.
The second study, by Sharon Álvarez, examines how cultural representations and urban transformations can reshape Colombia’s global image beyond narratives of drug trafficking and violence. Focusing on Cali, it explores how urban planning and cultural industries construct alternative representations of the city and nation through image analysis and visual semiotics.
The third study, by Alejandro Farieta, investigates how changes in local conflict and security following the 2016 Peace Agreement have affected secondary students’ educational outcomes. Combining quantitative analysis of conflict and educational data with school-level fieldwork, it examines how changing security conditions shape educational experiences.
Together, the three studies explore how Colombia’s transitional processes can generate institutional, cultural, social and educational transformation, and how knowledge emerging from these processes can contribute to sustaining and deepening peace.
PANELISTS
- Sonia Janeth Tequia Correa
Researcher and Lecturer · Public Policy · Innovation and Institutional Transformation
Lecturer on Regulatory Sandboxes and Public Planning in Controlled Testing Environments. National University of Colombia.
Winner of JusticIALab 2025 – The Future of Justice, with the "Adaptive Judicial Management" proposal - Sharon Álvarez Pérez
Cultural Researcher | Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Dimensions in Organisations.
MA Culture, Society & Globalisation, University of York
Member of the Peace Board, Colombian Consulate in London. - Alejandro Farieta Barrera
Assistant Professor, Centre for International Education, University of Sussex
CHAIR
- Mario Novelli
Professor, Centre for International Education, University of Sussex
Co‑Editor in Chief of Globalisation, Societies & Education
CO-CHAIR
- Tatiana Rodríguez
Alumni Network of Colombian Public Universities founding member