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This initiative is a significant step towards advancing territorial peace in Colombia鈥檚 urban areas, particularly in self-built neighbourhoods that have been deeply affected by the armed conflict.聽

In 2021, the Colombian national government, through the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), and the Medell铆n government signed an agreement to implement Comprehensive Restorative Processes with a Territorial Focus (PRIET). This initiative, piloted in the Northeast Zone of the city (Comuna 3: Manrique), aims to provide restorative measures for victims of the conflict.聽聽

The project, titled 鈥楶edagogies of Territorial Reparation: Co-producing 鈥楴eighbourhoods of Peace鈥� in Medellin鈥檚 Territorial Planning鈥� focuses on integrating spatial and reparative justice into urban planning policies. Through six co-creation workshops, the alliance developed civic pedagogical repertoires around territorial reparation and produced a series of policy recommendations to recalibrate Comprehensive Neighbourhood Upgrading (CNU) as a strategy for urban territorial peace (CNU-PEACE).聽聽

Key outputs include a Policy Brief, a Toolkit, and a Decalogue for Neighbourhoods of Peace, which emphasise the importance of memory places in restoring the rights of conflict victims. These outputs result from a year-long collaboration funded by the UCL Global Engagement Fund and were informed by extensive co-production efforts.聽聽

The project was coordinated by Catalina Ortiz (UCL), Natalia Villamizar Duarte (Newcastle University), Gloria Naranjo, and Paula Vargas L贸pez (Universidad de Antioquia). Local team members included Claudia Rengifo, Eliana Torres, Juan Esteban Lopera, and Fernando Zapata, with contributions from various community organisations and university departments.聽聽

One of the partners, a young inhabitant of Comuna 3, Davison Zapata said: 鈥淭his path shows us that the MIB-PAZ proposal seeks to be a scenario of conciliation of institutional and community planning, we will surely have many disagreements, but also consensus. Our path is a utopia to make Medell铆n a district without misery and exclusion, each one of us being the wood that feeds the fire of ideas that will cook our stew with the necessary seasoning to live in dignity in our hillsides and mountains.鈥澛�

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笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Catalina Ortiz is the Director of the聽UCL Urban Lab and lectures on the Building and Urban Design in Development MSc programme at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit.聽