CINEP / Peace Program

The Fundación Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular / Programa por la Paz 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 together with the documentation and continuous dissemination of information on human rights violations.

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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.

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.
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	Society of Jesus	CIAS-CINEP
1975 -1976	Ernesto Parra Escobar	Society of Jesus	1975-1976: CIAS-CINEP 1976: CINEP
1977-1982	Alejandro Angulo Novoa	Society of Jesus	CINEP
1987 -1993	Francisco de Roux	Society of Jesus	CINEP
1994-1998	Gabriel Izquierdo	Society of Jesus	CINEP
1998-2003	Fernán E. González	Society of Jesus	1998-2000: CINEP 2000-2003: CINEP/PPP
2004- 2011	Alejandro Angulo Novoa	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 años25 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 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, the Peace Programme of the Society of Jesus, and the Development and, 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.

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: