Villavicencio, Colombia

2015

PeaceStartup Map Villavicencio

Other Cycles in Colombia:

PeaceStartup Quibdó

PeaceStartup Bogotá

Challenges addressed

1.- Sustainable productive development

Strengthening the countryside in relation to its capabilities and potential for sustainable and inclusive growth.

Lines of work:

Technical assistance and crop innovation
Use of information and communication platforms
Alternatives for productive linkages
Sustainable tourism

2.- Coexistence in equity and reconciliation

Strategies that seek to guarantee victims' rights to truth, justice and reparation, to live in peace and to foster the creation of a social environment of reconciliation that mitigate the possibility of a return to violence in an eventual post-conflict context.

Lines of work:

Social and work orientation victims and women
Generation of reconciling environments
Sensitization in gender and sexual violence
Autonomy and economic empowerment of women

3.- Pedagogy and communication for peace

Generating a culture of peace scenario through education and communication that allows a cessation in the reproduction of violence in the territory.

Lines of work:

Non-violent conflict resolution
Strengthening political institutions
Strengthening citizen participation
Building and reaffirming values and culture of peace

Results

17 local allies

Partners involved

3 Challenges addressed

59 entrepreneurs and 38 mentors

Participated

9 Startups presented

Selected Startups

2nd Award

ROBOTEAM

EDUCA PARA LA PAZ

1st Award

ATARRAYA

3rd Award

Other Teams

EMU

GEOGRAFÍA PARA LA PAZ

ORINOQUIA DESTINO DE PAZ

PAZIANDO

REEDIFICAR

REMAPAZ

ASISTIC

Jury

Emerson Duran. Manager of the Orinoco ICT and representative of the ICT sector in the Board of Directors of Fenalco Meta
Ana María Arciniegas, Conflict Management and Peacebuilding Area Monitor, International Organization for Migration
Blanca Dilia Parrado, Director of UNAD for Orinoco and the Amazon
Carolina Naranjo, Peace, Development & Reconciliation Programme Officer, UNDP

Mentors

Diana Alexandra Ramos Fuentes, Uniminuto
Nicole Bryan, Executive Director of Rutgers Center for Market Advantage and Mentor (recent EIR) at FOOD-X.
Camilo Hurtado, Founder of Tita Media,
Sonia Pabon Barrera, Executive Director of Corporación Desarrollo para la Paz del Piedemonte Oriental - CORDEPAZ
Alejandra Pineda Sanabria, Consultant in Globalcad
Ana Lucia Ducuara Reyes, Field Officer - Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNDP
Luis Alberto Paloma Guzmán, UNDP
Carolina Naranjo, Peace, Development & Reconciliation Programme Officer, UNDP
Miller Gonzalez Oliveros, UNDP Villavicencio
Ana Maria Arciniegas Gonzalez, Conflict Management and Peacebuilding Area Monitor, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
John Fernando Murcia Ruiz, ANSPE