Building a ‘Culture of Peace’ - Colombia
Introduction
The dream of the Fondacion Saldarriaga de Concha (FSC) in post-conflict Colombia is to contribute to a cultural transformation and society for everyone where there is respect for everyone regardless their past affiliation with groups that were involved in the country’s long standing history of armed conflict.
Recently, the FSC utilized the Ecology of Peace framework to mobilize national funding for early childhood. As Healthy Living Leader at the Fundación Saldarriaga Concha in Bogota, Colombia, Dr. Lina María González Ballestero discusses her foundation’s success in mobilizing funds for investment in early childhood in Colombia through the conceptualization of peacebuilding from early childhood.
Contributor: Angelica Ponguta, PhD, MPH, serves as Expert Consultant to the Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC). She is Research Scientist in the Yale Child Study Center.
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Dr. Lina María González Ballesteros, Healthy Living Leader at the Fundación Saldarriaga Concha in Bogota, Colombia, joins host Marin Chanel, graduate student at Yale University. Dr. Ballesteros discusses her foundation’s success in mobilizing funds for investment in early childhood in Colombia through the conceptualization of peacebuilding from early childhood.
As part of a student exchange program between Yale Global Health Leadership Institute (New Haven, US) and Fundacion Saldarriaga of Concha (Bogota, Colombia), Yale student, Chanel Marin interned at the Fundacion in the summer of 2015. In her blog, Chanel elaborates on her experience involving children and families living in fragile contexts such as those affected by chronic poverty, internal displacement, natural disasters, violence, food insecurity, and other risk factors for poor child development.
As part of a student exchange program between Yale Global Health Leadership Institute and Fundacion Saldarriaga of Concha (Bogota, Colombia), Alejandro Diaz Oramas interned at Yale in the summer of 2015. In his blog, Alex elaborates on his summer exchange experience in relationship to peacebuilding through early childhood development.
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