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this paper examines how the memory of the war influenced the campaigning for the October 2016 peace plebiscite in Colombia. By analyzing 1307 tweets, the study identifies key strategies carried out by supporters and opponents of the peace agreement. This comparative approach shows that the "No" campaign mobilized the public around the delegitimization of the FARC guerilla, while the "Yes" campaign used Twitter essentially to announce campaign events. Allusions to the armed conflict were more frequent in the tweets against the peace agreement. They contributed to (re) writing the collective memory of the conflict by referring mainly to the facts for which the adversaries were responsible. The campaign for the plebiscite was a continuation of the war discourses specific to the period of armed confrontation. The conclusion highlights the implications for the peacebuilding project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on a philosopher whose thoughts are fundamental, today, to the question of the critical relation between philosophy and culture, or between politics and culture. Alfredo Gómez-Muller is one of the philosophers who has reflected, with great intellectual rigor, on Latin American imaginaries -and especially Colombian imaginaries- of nation, culture, and race. This is an overview of the origins and impact of Benthamism in the New Granada, as well as of some determinant imaginaries of the nation from the 19th century, which serves as an analysis of the importance given by the author to memory and utopia in building and consolidating a stable and lasting peace in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we discuss the lessons learned from a project that combined different types of methods to study the interaction of ecological dynamics, experience of resource users, and institutional arrangements. We combined theoretical computational models, laboratory experiments with undergraduate students in the USA, field experiments and role games with villagers in rural Thailand and Colombia. The expectation at the start of the project was that specific experience with resource management would affect the way participants play the game and the rules they would develop. We found that contextual variables, such as trust in other community members and the feeling of being an accepted member of the community, and also the ecological context had significant explanatory power, more than experience. Another conclusion from using these different methods is the fact that the quality of resource management lies more on the possibility of communication rather than on the types of rules crafted or selected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]