Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia with Angela Lederach

16/09/2024 41 min Temporada 4 Episodio 1
Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia with Angela Lederach

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Interviewed by Kellogg Doctoral Affiliate Isabel Güiza-Gómez, Cultural Anthropologist and Peace Scholar Angela Lederach discusses her recent book entitled "Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia," published by Stanford University Press. Focusing on Montes de María, Colombia, Lederach calls for a nuanced understanding of grassroots peacebuilding as a site for political contestation. She also introduces the concept of slow peace to refer to the temporality of grassroots peacebuilding that usually contrasts time constraints in formal peace implementation.

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