Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRHS)

Colombian Peace Communities

Thursday, April 20, 2017

6:00 p.m - 7:30 p.m

Joukowsky Forum

A documentary film screening with Victoria Sanford, Professor of Anthropology (Chair) at Lehman College, CUNY. This film traces the lives of displaced Colombians who decided to return en masse to rebuild their villages as peace communities. Film footage was shot during multiple trips for field research in villages on the Atrato River in northern Choco from October 2000 to October 2003. (55 minutes)