The Center for Research and Popular Education/Peace Program (CINEP/PPP) is a non-profit foundation that promotes social change under the orientation of the Society of Jesus in Colombia. It works toward the construction of a more just, democratic, and peaceful society, giving priority to men and women who have suffered exclusion and to victims. In order to achieve this objective, it generates alternatives for peace-building, integrated human development, enforcement of rights, and expansion of democracy through research projects, production of information, education, supporting social processes, advocacy, and communication.

For close to four decades, the work carried out by CINEP/PPP has provided an alternative, critical view of Colombian reality, grounded in the systematic production of information, reflections based on rigorous research, proposals for popular education aimed at strengthening the social fabric and organization, and advocacy in the public sphere.

Because its research contributes significantly to the analysis of the country and to the consolidation of the social sciences in Latin America, CINEP/PPP has become the training center for many of the social managers and researchers working in Colombian universities or NGOs. Furthermore, its varied pedagogical experiences and presence in different regions has allowed CINEP/PPP to propose alternatives for political, economic, and social inclusion, because its actions and critical and proactive thought arise from an ethical stance that is firmly grounded in the human.

In this context, CINEP/PPP has managed to consolidate proposals and visibilize issues associated with the armed conflict, State-building, peace, development, social struggles, and the protection of integrated human rights, in the regional, national, and international scenarios.

CINEP/PPP has an administrative and management platform that operates with credibility and transparency in providing support and facilitating the full development of its actions. The fact that it was one of the first NGOs to obtain the 2008 ICONTEC ISO 9001 in August of 2010 reflects the strengthening of its management and the quality of its processes.

 

OUR WORK

 

Analysis and understanding of local, regional, national, and international dynamics

• Systematization of peacebuilding processes, enforcement of rights, reconciliation, and solidarity
• Social research: historical, structural, situational, prospective, and proposal-oriented

 

Reconstruction and strengthening of the region- and nation-building subject

• Inner human growth: generation of processes aimed at the growth and reconciliation of subjects in order to strengthen their gender status, their responsibilities as citizens, and the relational and organizational processes they participate in
• Defense and promotion of human rights and International Humanitarian Law
• Assistance to victims, and vulnerable, at-risk populations in prevention, reconstruction, and reconciliation processes aimed at full exercise of citizenship
• Strengthening and coordination of the social, trade-union, and institutional fabric
• Political and citizenships training in order to enable citizen participation and the appropriation of their rights and responsibilities

 

Assistance in the development of alternative regional sustainability projects

• Territorial planning based on the synergy of the strategies required to achieve sustainability
• Peace and development alternatives aimed at supporting sustainable region- and nation-building

 

Public advocacy initiatives

• Public advocacy initiatives aimed at having an impact on public policies and practices, particularly those related to:

a) Processes aimed at assisting the victims of the social and armed conflicts (vulnerable, displaced, and at-risk populations)

b) Promotion and defense of human rights, citizen responsibilities, and peace and reconciliation processes 

c) Processes aimed at achieving sustainability 

• Lobbying, mediation, and creation of public opinion regarding human rights, peace, reconciliation, and sustainability at the regional, national, and  international levels