Abstract

CASTANEDA, Dorly. WHAT DO THE PEACE WORKSHOPS MEAN FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION?. colomb.int. [online]. 2009, n.69, pp.162-179. ISSN 0121-5612.

The Peace Workshops are programs for development cooperation undertaken by the European Union in Colombian confict zones. Analyzed from the Foreign Relations perspective, the workshops are a tool of the nascent common European foreign policy. The cooperation initiatives in Colombia, a country in the American sphere of infuence, are inscribed in a profle-defning process of the EU as an international actor. The article presents the Peace Workshops in Colombia to then explain what type of donor the EU tends to be, and the building process of its cooperation policy. The conclusion is reached that the Workshops are a European peacebuilding proposal that allows it to differentiate itself from the United States, as well as create for itself a place on the international stage as an actor for peace. However, the European proposal shines a light on the diffculties of establishing an international presence. Indeed, the Member States and the common institutions react in different ways to the changes that occur in the international context, transatlantic relations and the policies of the Colombian government.

Keywords : peace workshops; development cooperation; European Union; peacebuilding.

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