Building peace, improving health: an evening event with perspectives from Colombia

News | Posted on Thursday 5 December 2019

CHE researchers lead on an event for the ESRC Festival of Social Science

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The event held on 6 November 2019 at the Merchant Adventurers' Hall in York, was a public engagement evening with interactive displays of research findings from the War & Peace project. This included short films, an interactive map of Colombia showing conflict events and health initiatives, and timeline of the conflict. There was also a panel discussion with War & Peace researchers and others including a British journalist, Colombian visual artist, and representative from the Ministry of Health. 

The event was organised with funds received from a York internal grant from the ESRC.

A selecton of photos from the event can be seen here 

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