# CINEP / Peace Program

The Fundación Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular / Programa por la Paz (Cinep/PPP) is a Colombian organisation dedicated to researching and accompanying social organisations and communities in the search for the vindication of their rights. It is a leading research school in the social and human sciences in Colombia and the continent.
Since its creation, it has promoted the training of young social scientists in the practice of research with, by and for people. Thus, it brings together various paradigmatic and methodical approaches from the social and human sciences (political, structural, historical, socio-economic, participatory action, educational and social intervention research) together with the documentation and continuous dissemination of information on human rights violations.

## Objectives

The Cinep/PPP bet comes to life through the following actions:
* High quality research oriented to the solution of relevant public problems.
* Participatory local research and design of methodologies for the social appropriation of knowledge.
* Documentation of human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law; environmental and territorial rights; social struggles, peace initiatives and social dialogue, among others. Reports based on our documentation have been used by national and international high courts, international cooperation agencies, multilateral organisations, public entities, universities and think tanks.
* Design of pedagogical tools applying differential gender, ethnic, age and territorial approaches.
* Technical and strategic accompaniment to communities for the enforceability of human, territorial and environmental rights.
* Judicial representation of ethnic groups in the framework of transitional justice.
* Construction and accompaniment of spaces for dialogue and mediation, multi-factor dialogues and multi-level dialogues.
* Accompaniment and monitoring of local peace initiatives and territorial implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement (Cuba).

## History

* In 1944, the National Coordination of Social Action of the Society of Jesus in Colombia was organised, focusing on training leaders and advising popular organisations.
* In 1966, CIAS-CINEP was consolidated as a group of Jesuits and lay people who sought to complement the work of the National Coordination of Social Action with research and teaching., positioning itself as a centre for research and social action.
* In 1972, the legal status of CIAS-CINEP was recognised (Ministry of Justice, Resolution No. 1960 of 1972).
* On 8 October 1976, the amendment to change the name of CIAS to CINEP was accepted.
* In 2000, the Peace Programme of the Society of Jesus, established in 1987, s and integrated CINEP into the Centre for Research and Popular Education/Programme for Peace: Cinep/PPP .

### Dirección

| Year | Name | Affiliations | Center's Name |
| 1972-1974 | Alejandro Angulo Novoa (SJ) | Society of Jesus | CIAS-CINEP |
| 1975 -1976 | Ernesto Parra Escobar (SJ) | Society of Jesus | 1975-1976: CIAS-CINEP 1976: CINEP |
| 1977-1982 | Alejandro Angulo Novoa (SJ) | Society of Jesus | CINEP |
| 1987 -1993 | Francisco de Roux (SJ) | Society of Jesus | CINEP |
| 1994-1998 | Gabriel Izquierdo | Society of Jesus | CINEP |
| 1998-2003 | Fernán E. González (SJ) | Society of Jesus | 1998-2000: CINEP 2000-2003: CINEP/PPP |
| 2004- 2011 | Alejandro Angulo Novoa (SJ) | Society of Jesus | CINEP/PPP |
| 2012-2021 | Luis Guilllermo Guerrero | N/A | CINEP/PPP |
| 2021 | Martha Lucía Márquez | N/A | CINEP/PPP |

### Commemorative publications

* Una opción y muchas búsquedas: Cinep 25 años
* 25 años de luchas sociales en Colombia, 1975-2000
* Cinep 40 años. Una apuesta por lo imposible

## Areas of work

They are divided into two programmes, each with four lines of work. The first is the Conflict, State and Peace Programme, which comprises the lines of State and Peace Building in Conflict Regions, Ethnic Transitional Justice (before 2024 known as Territorial Management) and Education for Citizenship and Peace. The second is the Mobilisation, Human Rights and Interculturality Programme, which articulates the lines of Social Movements, Land and Territory, Interculturality and Human Rights.
It has also participated in collective processes such as the Colombian Observatory for Integral Development, Citizen Coexistence and Institutional Strengthening (Odecofi), the Peace Programme of the Society of Jesus, and the Development and Peace Programme of Magdalena Medio, among others.

### General Information System (SIG)

During its trajectory, Cinep/PPP has documented events and happenings through the Monitoring System of Spaces for Dialogue and Negotiation - SINEDI, the Database of Social Struggles in Colombia; the Database of Human Rights and Political Violence; and the Datapaz Database. This documentation has been converted into the General Information System (SIG).

## Library Specialised in Social Sciences

The Cinep/PPP Specialized Library in Social Sciences has a bibliographic and audiovisual collection of 39,784 volumes, including books, documents, journals and videos. The library is divided into eight thematic groups: books, documents, magazines and videos.
It is divided into eight thematic groups:
* Cinep/PPP Books
* Cinep/PPP Documents
* General Collection
* General documents
* Jesuit Refugee Service Latin America and the Caribbean Collection
* Reference
* Newspaper library
* Video library
Of the aforementioned groups, three form the Foundation's patrimonial collection: Cinep/PPP books, Cinep/PPP documents and the video library.

### History Library

Source:
The Cinep/PPP library began in 1962 at CIAS, when the centre's team of Jesuits moved their personal collections to their offices so that these materials could serve as bibliographic support for their research. These collections included titles on religion, religious sociology, church social doctrine and economics. As the research activities of CIAS expanded, the collection was extended to include topics such as politics and history, and at the same time a physical space was allocated to centralise the information unit. At that time there was a reading room and the services of external consultation and home lending were offered to the people who worked at the centre and through them to university students and people interested in the country's social development programmes.
In 1976, the year in which CIAS-CINEP changed its name to CINEP and moved to its headquarters at 33rd and 5th, the library was already providing a more formal service to external users. As the work fronts of the centre expanded, the information needs of the users grew and, consequently, the specialisation of the collections. In the 1980s, the volume of information, the specificity of the subjects, the permanent specialisation of the collections and the demand for information both internally and externally, created the need to hire staff specialised in the universal techniques of acquisition, processing, organisation and dissemination of information.
The current process of shaping the collections and the services offered was oriented towards the institution's activities and research, to the point of positioning the Cinep/PPP library as one of the best specialised libraries in the area of social sciences.

## Publishing House

Since its consolidation as a CIAS, the centre has participated in the publication of different documents that have allowed it to undertake an editorial project from the Publications Office. The first research papers published allowed the consolidation of themes and issues that ended up becoming Cinep/PPP's lines of work.
Cinep/PPP's catalogue includes:
| Type | Known publications |
| Books | Poder y violencia en Colombia de Fernán González (2014) |
| Books | Una historia inconclusa: izquierdas políticas y sociales en Colombia de Álvaro Delgado, Jorge Alberto Cote, Martha Cecilia García Velandia, Mauricio Archila Neira, Patricia Madariaga |
| Books | ¿Cuál Estado para cuál ciudadanía? Paradojas y disyunciones de la modernización del Estado en Colombia de Gloria Isabel Ocampo |
| Journals | Cien Días vistos por Cinep (1988) |
| Journals | Controversia (1975) |
| Journals | Noche y niebla (1996) |
| Documents | Talando la selva y contaminando las aguas de Juan Pablo Guerrero Home, Laura Catalina Tovar Bohórquez, Sonia Cristina Vargas Perdomo |
| Documents | Tejidos. Mujeres wiwas, territorio y economía propia de Círculo de la Palabra de las Mujeres |
| Documents | ReconoSiendo. Estrategia pedagógica para la lectura crítica del pasado reciente de Alejandro Arteaga, Ángela Jaramillo, Fernán E. González G., Jefferson Gallego, Jorge Enrique Castro, José Darío Rodríguez Cuadros, S.J., Laura Perdigón, Valeria Zapata |
| Primers | Ajá ¿y por qué no? Hombres comprometidos con la equidad de género de Coalición de Mujeres del Caribe por la Tierra y el Territorio, María Camila Barrera Gutiérrez, Nyria Ramírez Ortega |
| Primers | Transformación noviolenta de conflictos sociales en Colombia. Claves de lectura, paradigma de acción y retos estratégicos del Cinep/PPP de Diego Bulla, Juan Carlos Merchán, Laura Constanza Henao |
| Primers | Does Cerrejón Always Win? Between corporate impunity for human rights violations and the search for comprehensive reparation in times of transition |
| Occasional documents | Núm. 87. Herramientas pedagógicas significativas para el cambio social de Carlos Krisch, Ivonne Guzmán, Martha Lucía Márquez, Stephany Escobar |
| Occasional documents | Núm. 86. ¿Reformar la reforma? Aportes para una política de tierras en el siglo XXI de Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín, Itayosara Rojas Herrera, Martha Carvajalino, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Sergio Coronado |
| Occasional documents | Núm. 84. ¿Por qué es tan difícil negociar con el ELN? Una mirada regionalmente diferenciada de Andrés Felipe Aponte G., Charles Larratt Smith, Daniel Ricardo Amaya Alba, Fernán E. González G., Henry Ortega Palacio |

## Referencias

* 1 2 3 González González, Fernán E., ed. (2013). Cinep 40 años: una apuesta por lo imposible. Bogotá: Cinep. Programa por la Paz. ISBN 978-958-644-166-7.
* ↑ Espectador, El (2022-06-01). "ELESPECTADOR.COM". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* 1 2 3 Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular, ed. (1998). Una opción y muchas búsquedas: CINEP, 25 años. Bogotá: CINEP. ISBN 978-958-644-064-6. OCLC 41891085.
* 1 2 Castillo Salazar, David Alejandro (2015). "El Programa por la Paz: una iniciativa de la compañía de Jesús en Colombia 1987-2000". Retrieved 2024-11-22. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
* ↑ Archila, Maurício N.; Delgado Guzmán, Álvaro; García Velandia, Martha Cecilia, eds. (2004). 25 años de luchas sociales en Colombia, 1975 - 2000 (1. reimpr ed.). Bogotá: CINEP. ISBN 978-958-644-083-7.
* ↑ González, Fernán González (2009-06-10). "Presentación". Controversia (in Spanish) (192): 5–9. doi:10.54118/controver.v0i192.203 (inactive 2024-11-22). ISSN 2539-1623.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
* ↑ museodata.com (2024-08-27). "Biblioteca - Fundación Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular / Programa Por la Paz Cinep/PPP". Museodata (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* ↑ "Biblioteca - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). 2022-05-22. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* 1 2 Velandia Piedrahita, Pedro Javier (2022). La edición como forma de incidencia : el caso de la Oficina de Publicaciones del Cinep/PPP (masters thesis) (in Spanish). Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
* ↑ González González, Fernán E. (2014). Poder y violencia en Colombia. Colección Territorio, poder y Conflicto (1. ed.). Bogotá: Odecofi-cinep. ISBN 978-958-644-171-1.
* ↑ "Una historia inconclusa. Izquierdas políticas y sociales en Colombia - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* ↑ Ocampo, Gloria Isabel (2018). ¿Cuál estado para cuál ciudadanía? paradojas y disyunciones de la modernización del estado en Colombia. Colección Territorio, poder y conflicto (Primera edición ed.). Bogotá, D.C., Colombia : Medellín, Colombia: Cinep Programa por la Paz/Odecofi Observatorio Colombiano para el Desarrollo Integral, la Convivencia Ciudadana y el Fortalecimiento Institucional ; Editorial Eafit. ISBN 978-958-644-235-0. OCLC 1080195056.
* ↑ "Talando la selva y contaminando las aguas - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* ↑ "Tejidos. Mujeres wiwas, territorio y economía propia - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* ↑ "ReconoSiendo. Estrategia pedagógica para la lectura crítica del pasado reciente - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* ↑ "Ajá ¿y por qué no? Hombres comprometidos con la equidad de género - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* ↑ "Transformación noviolenta de conflictos sociales en Colombia. Claves de lectura, paradigma de acción y retos estratégicos del Cinep/PPP - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* ↑ "Does Cerrejón Always Win? Between corporate impunity for human rights violations and the search for comprehensive reparation in times of transition - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* ↑ "Herramientas pedagógicas significativas para el cambio social - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* ↑ "¿Reformar la reforma? Aportes para una política de tierras en el siglo XXI - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
* ↑ "¿Por qué es tan difícil negociar con el ELN? Una mirada regionalmente diferenciada - Publicaciones Cinep" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
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