Roundtable on "Narrating Colombia's (Post)Conflict"
Location - 216 Burr Hall---This roundtable brings together experts on conflict and Colombia from creative writing, economics, and history. We will discuss the contemporary state of peace and violence in Colombia, as well as the qualitative and quantitative methods which our disciplines employ to describe these issues.---Ana María Ibáñez is Professor at the School of Economics in Universidad de los Andes. She is the former Dean of the School of Economics at Universidad de los Andes and the Director of the research center (CEDE). Ana María studied a Masters and PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park. Professor Ibáñez' research studies the economic consequences of internal conflict, in particular the costs of war and conflict upon the civil population. Her research has been published on Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Peace Research, International Regional Science Review, World Development, The Economics of Peace and Security Journal and Economia. She has published chapter in nine books. In 2008, she published a book on the economic consequences of forced displacement in Colombia and in 2014 she edited a book on the economic and social costs of the Colombian conflict. Ana María Ibáñez has been awarded with the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development of Global Development Network (2005), an honorable mention from the "Fundación Alejandro Ángel Escobar" (2009) and the Juan Luis Londoño award in 2010, a medal given biannually to a Colombian economist younger than 40 years that has contributed to improve the social conditions of Colombians. She is member of the the Board of Directors of Grupo Éxito and Bank BBVA-Colombia.---Robert Karl is Assistant Professor of History and Faculty Associate in the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia (published in Spanish as La paz olvidada: Letrados, políticos, campesinos y el surgimiento de las FARC en la formación de la Colombia contemporánea), winner of the 2018 Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies Arthur P. Whitaker Prize.---Phil Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Granta, Tin House, and elsewhere. In 2014 Klay¿s short story collection, Redeployment, was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Prize and won the National Book Award for Fiction. He is currently working on a novel about U.S. involvement in Colombia.---Speakers:Ana María Ibáñez, PLAS Visiting Fellow, Economic---Robert Karl, Assistant Professor, History---Phil Klay, Lecturer, Program in Creative Writing---Event webpage: https://plas.princeton.edu/events