Our projects, by intention, are not limited to any particular tool set. Our larger goal is to engage with marginalized perspectives and encourage more candid understandings of conflict. In turn, we are eager to explore diverse approaches to encourage dialogue towards this end. To date this has included:
- In person interviews and survey research to better understand the ongoing challenges facing contested communities and listening for potential solutions that have so far been neglected. This includes our Cauca Peace Survey and the Cauca Violence Survey.
- Producing ‘white papers’ that document the reality of post-conflict Colombia from a policy perspective, as well as writing more informal chronicles that recount the often unexpected lessons that present themselves when engaging local communities and other marginalized areas. This includes the Cauca Education Report and Avitourism in the Serranía del Perijá, another face of the Peace Accords.
- Supporting public art projects that feature those living amidst conflict and the wider challenges they face. This includes encouraging the diversity of contested communities such as Celebrating Cauca and using art therapy workshops to help children cope with ongoing conflict, including during the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
- Commissioning documentary films that help highlight the challenges facing local communities amidst conflict, and those fighting for a better future. This includes Digno Retrato highlighting a young man’s mission to highlight the raw beauty of his neighbors and Aguacero exploring the ongoing challenges facing students and educators in the rainiest community on earth.
- Creating experimental projects that might succeed or fail, but that nonetheless take aim at important issues in dire need of attention. This includes projects like Café para La Lucha.