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Aldo Civico

Aldo Civico is the Director of Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) in New York City and a member of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition Executive Advisory Committee. Since 2001, he has being conducting fieldwork in Colombia on paramilitary and forcibly displaced people. During his fieldwork in 2003, he met Francisco Galán, the spokesperson of the ELN, and since then have developed a relationship of mutual trust.

For CICR, Mr. Civico designed and conducted several conflict resolution workshops in Colombia and Haiti. He has participated in numerous forums and conferences around the world, including at Boston College, the Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia), the Universidad Bolivariana (Colombia), the Universidade de São Paolo (Brazil), the American Anthropological Association, the Latin American Studies Association, the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Lima, Peru), Cornell Univeristy, the Council of the Americas and Columbia University.

In June 2004 Mr. Civico collaborated with the Woodrow Wilson Center at Princeton University in the organization of a conference on the demobilization process of the paramilitary in Colombia. In the 1990s he worked with the former Mayor of Palermo, Italy, Mr. Leoluca Orlando in the anti-Mafia movement, La Rete (The Net), and has worked with Mr. Orlando since in helping different countries in Latin America promote a culture of lawfulness and human rights.