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Binational Cocoa School: A platform for transforming migration and development in Arauca

Colombian and Venezuelan cocoa producers and institutional partners gathered in Arauquita to meet the Binational School of Specialty Cocoa (CACOA), a collaboration and learning platform that will support border migration through the cocoa value chain.

July 23,2024

New approach to financing projects that contribute to peace and territorial reconciliation

Following eight years of collaboration with peace-building communities to co-create and develop rural development and peace-building projects, One Earth Future, through the PASO Colombia program, introduces a new approach to financing projects in the territories.

April 15,2024

Cocoa and Chocolate on the Colombian-Venezuelan Border

The Colombian Cacao and Chocolate Salon hosted the 'Binational Dialogue: Cocoa and Chocolate on the Colombian-Venezuelan Border for Employment, Peace, and Development,' which was supported by PASO and attended by 32 representatives from eight cocoa-related organizations in Venezuela and Colombia.

March 07,2024

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May 05, 2023

University of Notre Dame Students and Colombian ex-combatants share lessons for business and peace-building

Faculty and students from the Meyer Business on the Frontlines program at the University of Notre Dame recently visited COOMPAZCOL, a cooperative working with PASO Colombia in the ERA of Fonseca. During their visit they exchanged valuable lessons on the power of cooperation to create sustainable eco...

April 21, 2023

Coffee to Combat Conflict: Launching Costal Campesino de Colombia in Europe

An emblematic brand for peace borns in Colombia: the first specialty coffee processed by ex-combatants and farmers victims of the armed conflict to be exported to Europe.

November 17, 2022

Workshop for Trauma Management and the Beginning of Resilience with Ex-combatants

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and PASO Colombia joined forces to carry out the workshop "Transitions: Attending to the Wounds of the Soul" in which ex-combatants and people working in the reintegration process learned about managing trauma and the path of psychosocial resilience.

Workshop on trauma management and resilience-building with ex-combatants

November 23, 2021

Bander Beyla Co-Management Associations Develops Strategic Plan

The workshop convened 20 CMA members including the Chairman of the CMA and the mayor of Bander Beyla, Mr. Abdirahsid made the opening remarks.

November 10, 2021

PASO Colombia Launches #FeedPeace Campaign with Paramillo and Bay-Build Foundation

Feed peace in Colombia by supporting the efforts of former rebels and rural farmers. They have put aside 50 years of war, and are pursuing sustainable peace by producing cheaper, healthier, and more accessible natural animal feed.

January 05, 2021

Building a First-of-its-Kind Regional Reintegration Plan in Colombia

At the invitation of PASO Colombia, which is coordinating development of plans for reincorporation of ex-combatants, the mayor of Cali recently visited a transitional rural zone where FARC's ex-combatants are concentrated.

November 30, 2020

PASO Colombia Wins Grant to Create the Rural Alternative School of Communication in Mutatá, Antioquia

November 12, 2020

"A Network for Peace and Security in Colombia," a new partnership at UN75 Forum

PASO Colombia announced “A Network for Peace and Security in Colombia,” a new partnership that aims to promote the inclusive rural development of campesinos economies that have been affected by conflict for several years.

Raising a building frame in rural Colombia

October 13, 2020

The University of Notre Dame partners with PASO Colombia

They will be leading a research team to conduct an evaluation of the new Rural Alternative Schools (ERA) that will be opening in Puerto Guzmán and its impact on ex-combatants and members of the surrounding communities that are in the process of substituting illegal crops. They will establish a basel...

October 13, 2020

Virtual Market Provides Food in the San José del Guaviare During COVID-19.

A Virtual Farmers Market was created as a strategy to face COVID-19 crisis in Colombia countryside.

September 19, 2020

Op-ed: Philanthropy’s Role in the Missing Global Architecture

By Marcel Arsenault, co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of One Earth Future, an incubator of peace programs around the world, including PASO Colombia. He is also a member of the Giving Pledge, and Founder and CEO of Real Capital Solutions

May 30, 2020

Assessing the Impact of Peacebuilding Efforts in Colombia and Beyond

OEF’s PASO Colombia program partners with the University of Notre Dame, facilitating the greater impact of peacebuilding efforts in Colombia.

May 12, 2020

Women Seeding Peace: The Campesino (Rural Farming) Women Who Left Coca Crops

The national newspaper El Tiempo published an article on "Women Seeding Peace", a series that brings together the stories of peasant women who voluntarily substituted crops for illicit use.

May 08, 2020

Reincorporating Ex-combatants and Stopping the Spread of COVID-19 in Colombia

One Earth Future’s PASO Colombia program is helping cooperatives of ex-combatants to support reintegration and to face the emergency generated by COVID-19.

Corona Virus help in Cali Colombia - Masks

April 20, 2020

New Video Series Presents Stories of Women Seeding Peace in Colombia

In a new eight week video series, “Women Seeding Peace: Life After Coca Crops,” One Earth Future Foundation’s PASO Colombia program presents the compelling stories of women who have courageously transformed their own lives and livelihoods to help put their communities on a path toward a more peacefu...

Women stop growing coca crops in Colombia

April 01, 2020

Plan for the Replacement of Illegal Crops Provides Sustainable Future for Colombian Farmers

PASO Colombia and the UN support 1,967 farmers in the substitution of illegal crops, providing legal crop alternatives and access to markets.

December 15, 2019

Sustainable Peace Through Collaboration

A Rural Alternative School (ERA for its Spanish acronym) is a productive and educational unit in a territory affected by violence.