CCW’s project, ‘From Conflict Actors to Architects of Peace: Promoting Security and Development across Borders’, has been awarded continued funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of the Government of Canada until September 2020.

The project, which began in November 2018, strengthens civil society to identify and express security concerns to national-level policy-makers, in the context of the peace treaty between the FARC and the government of Colombia. Its research also contributes to increasing the knowledge and understanding of the UN and the Colombian government on the reconfiguration of armed actors and the impact of the humanitarian crises at Colombia’s borders with Venezuela and Ecuador.

This is part of a wider CONPEACE programme running since 2016, in partnership with UNHCR, and also funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation and the Oxford-Berlin Initiative.