CREARC

CREARC- Corporation for Analysis, Research, Peace Education and Conflict Resolution
“Together building peace”

I honor the place inside of you where the whole universe
resides.
I honor the place where you are in that place inside of
you and I am in that place inside of me, we are one.
Namaste

CREARC - Corporation for Analysis, Investigation, Peace Education, and Conflict Resolution. (Spanish acronym for Corporación para el Análisis, la Investigación, la Educación para la Paz y la Resolución de Conflictos).

It is a non profit private legal entity, we do peace field investigation, peace education, peace building, fundamental rights, peaceful transformation of conflicts and disputes.

VISION

Social justice based on cooperation, human development, non violence, peaceful coexistence and reconciliation.

MISSION

To participate in the construction of a peace culture through analysis, education and peace investigation.

OBJECTIVES

Some of our objectives are:

* To negotiate and realize social, educative, and community projects.

* To promote analysis and investigation of law, Education theories, Human Rights and Peace,

* To collaborate in the development of alternative methods to solve conflicts.

* To create informal education training events within CREARC work areas.

* To publish the investigation monographs and CREARC project results.

* To lead forums, symposiums, working days, meetings, congresses, conferences, networks etc.

PRINCIPLES

Quality, service, people, attention, self maintenance, opportunity and social responsibility.

VALUES

Some of our values are:

Affirmation, self esteem, confidence, communication, mutual respect, understanding, leadership, cooperation, social projection, creativity, organization, honesty and transparency, commitment, plurality, interdisciplinary work and critical spirit.

Translation: Bonnie Klassen (2003) and Alba Luz Arrieta Cabrales (2005)

INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS

1. CENTER FOR CONCILIATION
Approved by Resolution 597 of 2003 by the Ministry of the Interior and Justice

This Project of the Corporation for the Analysis, the Investigation, the Education for Peace and Conflict Resolution, CREARC explores the interaction with the social reality through reconciliation, conciliation, mediation, and other alternative means of conflict resolution.

This is a project of CREARC that seeks to interact with social realities through conciliation and other alternative means to solve tensions.

What we Offer

- Services in conciliation.
- Analysis, consulting services, advice, investigation and training in peaceful conflict transformation.
- Support for alternative conflict resolution in Colombia and in other countries.

Strengths

- Highly trained personnel qualified in the areas of conciliation and arbitration.
- Support from an interdisciplinary team
- Impartiality and clear ethics in the treatment of conflicts.
- The will to seek peaceful solutions
- Efficiency and economy in resolving conflicts
- Honesty and transparency
- Creation of spaces for dialogue
- Conciliation and arbitration that humanize the conflict
- Dignity in the lawyer’s profession
- The different parties in the conflict manage the facts and the lawyers manage the legal aspects.

Conciliation
Conciliation is a mechanism for resolving conflicts through which the people involved themselves create solutions for their differences with the help of a trained neutral third party, called a conciliator.

Request for Conciliation

A document is addressed to the Center for Conciliation CREARC

This document should include:

- the name and home address of the person making the request
- the name and home address of the other parties in the conflict
- the name of the representatives of the parties, if that be the case
- a description of the facts, events and differences that need to be conciliated
- the subject of the conciliation
- the amount
- payment of the audience

Translation:Bonnie Klassen - 2003

2. RESEARCH PEACE CENTRE

It analyzes the conflict and its causes, the globalization and its effects, from a multidisciplinary perspective and it also outlines alternatives in the public policies as a form of peaceful transformation of the structural conflict.

It has a work proposal that includes a Conflict
observatory, research projects, publications and a documentation centre.

The Research Peace Centre is a project of studies and popularisation of the Corporation for the Analysis, Research, Education for Peace and Conflict Resolution, CREARC.

We analyze the conflict and their causes, the globalisation system and its effects, development and tendencies, from a multidisciplinary perspective of the investigation for the peace and we seek to outline alternatives in public policies as a form of peaceful transformation of the structural conflict.

Our work proposal includes research projects, a conflict observatory, publications and a documentation centre.

AREAS OF WORK:

1. CONFLICT OBSERVATORY
2. RESEARCH PROJECTS
3. PUBLICATIONS
4. DOCUMENTATION CENTRE

CONFLICT OBSERVATORY

This Observatory has been planned by CREARC as the first strategy for investigation. The Observatory leads us to the social reality and its interpretation: at the time that it systematizes information on specific topics, it serves as raw material for the analysis work. Moreover, it promotes meetings, debates and publications. It also establishes a permanent and direct flow of information among those who produce information and analyze it in the work fields defined in the investigation lines.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

The basic research lines are the following ones:

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Daily social violence.
Education, culture, media and peace.
Peace building and human rights.
Non-violence and pacifism.
International conflict.
National conflict.
Environmental conflict.

DOCUMENTATION CENTRE

CREARC has a centre of documentary resources specialized on texts of theory of the conflict, peace building, reconciliation, arbitration, negotiation, transaction, mediation, research for the peace, education for peace, human rights, violence, alternative methods of conflict resolution, and a bibliography on conflict resolution. Most of the texts are in Spanish and some of them are in English or French.

The Documentation Centre is divided in three sections:

* File of Documents:
With literature from different organisms, institutions, and national and international Non Governmental Organizations.

* File of Magazines: With magazines selected thematically.

* Library: 600 volumes, organized in thematic sections.

Public and free access
Call for a previous appointment
No borrow books service

Translation: Alba Luz Arrieta Cabrales - 2005

3. CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION

It is the area of CREARC work conflict transformation involves transforming the relationships that support violence.

The transformation of the conflict is the changes of people and the relations that created the initial conflict.

Thus, the cause-and-effect relationship goes both ways–from the people and the relationships to the conflict and back to the people and relationships.

In this sense, “conflict transformation” is a term that describes a natural occurrence.

Conflicts change relationships in predictable ways, altering communication patters and patterns of social organization, altering images of the self and of the other.

CREARC works in the area of mediaciòn, negotiation, facilitation and reconciliation.

4. SEMINAR OF EDUCATION FOR PEACE

The Seminar of Education for Peace, CREARC, gathers people coming from different fields of the formal, not formal and informal education. Education for peace, according to our understanding, is a liberating education which encourages social action, peace and justice.

The Seminar enables people with skills to face intolerance, conformism, ethnocentrism and other attitudes that contribute to perpetuate the structural, cultural and direct violence, in a peaceful way.

OBJECTIVES

The specific objectives are to:

* Promote consciousness on the need of practicing Conflict Transformation and the building of a peace culture.

* Raise interest and sensitiveness towards the need of educating on and for the peace, human rights and development.

* Contribute to the formation of educators and multipliers of groups of education on peace.

COURSES

The Seminar approaches different subjects through diverse methodologies and levels (introductory—basic—advanced:

Theory of the conflict
Ethics and conflict
Art and conflict
Anthropology of the conflict
Pedagogy of the conflict
Gender and conflict
Right and conflict
Social conflict
Cultural, ethnic, religious and environmental conflicts.
Education for peace
Culture of peace
Peace research
Studies on peace
Elements and basic tools for the Conflict analysis
Introduction and evolution of human rights
Classification of human rights, duties and obligations
Human dignity and human rights
Introduction to economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR)
Conflict and peaceful transformation
Communication in Conflict Transformation
Alternative methods of Conflict Resolution (Basic Course)
Alternative methods of Conflict Resolution (Advanced Course)
Alternative methods of Conflict Resolution (Compared Rights)
Alternative methods of Conflict Resolution, Psycho-social and
Interdisciplinary aspects
Jurisprudence and doctrine on mediation and conciliation
Community justice
Negotiation
Mediation
Judges of peace
Reconstruction, resolution and reconciliation
Systems of Justice Administration
Non-violence and pacifism
Psychological treatment to the victims of violence
Domestic Violence
Post modernity, Rights and Juridical pluralism.