1st IBER-AMERICAN MEETING: COEXISTENCE AND CITIZEN SECURITY New views Academic director: Juan Guillermo Sepúlveda Director of HUMAN Barcelona, 15-16 November 2007 Auditorium of the Museum of the History of Catalonia, Barcelona (Palau de Mar, plaza de Pau Vila, 3) With collaboration and sponsorship from:
PRESENTATION This will be a meeting between people who represent different areas of knowledge in the field of coexistence and citizen security in Ibero-America. It will be a meeting between the theory and practice of the governments of Latin America and Spain. A meeting examining Good Practices for public administrations, institutions and people who have dared to venture into the world of urban conflict and who, as a result of trial and error, have at least witnessed the mistakes that have been made, and which should not be repeated. It is a meeting between experts who, taking a panoramic view, have supported and accompanied projects of analysis, intervention and assessment that enable them to continue with the search for peaceful coexistence in Ibero-America. Minimums Agreement Minimums Agreements are based on the following premises linked with the issue of coexistence and citizen security: Objective - The issue of coexistence and citizen security in Latin America is a matter of life or death: it is estimated that 350,000 people die violent deaths every year, 110,000 of whom are murdered. (Democracy in Latin America. Toward a democracy of citizens. PNUD 2004). - Urban violence in this region represents an incalculable cost for the different sectors of society, as it represents between 2% and 15% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while the cost of private security fluctuates between 8% and 25% of the GDP. (Buvinic, M. and Morrison, A. (1999), Violence as an Obstacle to Development, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington.) - The issue of Coexistence and Citizen Security is one that is complex and multicausal, and in order to deal with it, all the associated factors should be taken into consideration, and employed to design tools for intervention. - We have moved forward towards a new concept of security, going from the concept of national and domestic security to that of coexistence and citizen security, and in which human development with all that the phrase signifies is the main objective. - Finally, within this new panorama, the recognised arbitrator is local governments, as they are in a privileged position of having a first-hand view of everyday violence which is, essentially, is one of the main factors of risk and insecurity in Latin America. To contribute to breaking the vicious circle generated by the factors associated with urban violence that become transformed into an interminable spiral of armed urban conflict, and which can be represented in quantitative equations that are synonymous with death; for example: the more violence there is, the less human development, the less investment into society and the less democracy there is, all of which produces more violence, which then
generates much less human development, much less investment into society, and so on and on successively, in a spiral of no return of violence and citizen insecurity. The Target To help stop the spiral of everyday violence, which resembles a situation of armed conflict in Latin American urban centres. Using know-how to contribute to this aim, offering new views on how to deal with the problem of citizen insecurity. These views will range from innovative initiatives for creating wealth and social responsibility in the business sector, to devising a comprehensive methodology for intervening in urban conflict, as well as the use of peaceful methods for resolving conflict between indigenous ethnic peoples. Other areas for innovation include: intervention tools in urban displacement, disarmament strategies for children and teenagers, the use of community mediation based around the local police with immigrant communities, as well as other such approaches. The theoretical framework These new views on security should be accompanied by a theoretical framework that promotes the security of inclusion, and which can bring to an end, once and for all, the dual society of security a society in which the excluded are the object of surveillance, while the included are the object of protection. ( More rights, more security. More security, more rights. Public policy and security in a democratic society. By: the Association of Defenders of Human Rights ADDH, and others). Given the utopia that it represents, coexistence should be practiced with great regularity, so that it becomes a normal social event Juan Guillermo Sepúlveda
PROGRAMME Thursday 15 November 9.00h Inauguration Narcís Serra, President, CIDOB Foundation Antoni Traveria, Director of Casa Amèrica Catalunya Fernando Carrillo Flórez, Senior Adviser at the European office of the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB 9.30 h Inaugural Address 10.30 h Coffee break Inclusion and exclusion in the social construction of security Massimo Pavarini, International expert on Governments of Security. Lecturer in Diritto penitenziario e Istituzioni di Diritto penale. Faculty of Jurisprudence, Bologna University, Italy 11.00 h FIRST PANEL: New models for managing wealth and the resolution of ethnic conflicts Moderator: Auxiliadora Manrique, Head of the Cooperation Service, Support Unit for the Department of Cooperation with Ibero-America, Governability Programme, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI) Address: The creation of collective wealth, the new social responsibility of businesspeople. An experience in the city of Medellín, Colombia Jaime Echeverri, Vice-President of Planning and Development at Medellín Chamber of Commerce, for Antioquia, Colombia Address: Constructive agreements and arrangements with and between indigenous peoples as a model for resolving conflicts Pablo Gutiérrez, Part-time lecturer in the History of Law at the University of Seville Address: Internal displacement as a result of violence or victims of social inequality in Antioquia, Colombia Juan F. Ángel de la Cuesta, Director of the Humanitarian Aid Corporation, Colombia
13.00 h Lunch 15.00 h SECOND PANEL: Arms, teenagers and urban displacement Moderator: María Marcos, Director of the Centre of Intelligence against Organised Crime (CICO), Spain 17.00 h Coffee break Address: Boys, girls and teenagers in organised armed violence Daniel Luz*, UNICEF Consultant for Latin America and the Caribbean in disarmament programmes for the child population * Lecture read by Lluís Paradell Fernández. Office Member of the Security s Secretary. Department of Interior, Institutional Relations and Participation. Sub Inspector of the Mossos d Esquadra (Catalan Police) Address: Internal displacement as a result of violence or victims of social inequality in Antioquia, Colombia Juan F. Ángel de la Cuesta, Director of the Humanitarian Aid Corporation, Colombia 17.30 h THIRD PANEL: Armed urban conflict Moderator: Antoni Traveria, Director of Casa Amèrica Catalunya Address: Integral intervention in urban conflict. The experience of Medellín in the 1990s Juan G. Sepúlveda, Recognised by the Organisation of American States (OEA) as an expert in measures for fostering trust and security. Consultant. Director of HUMAN Address: Urban violence. Lessons learned from Comuna 13 in Medellín Pablo Emilio Angarita, Lecturer and Social Researcher at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Antioquia, Colombia Address: Citizen security in the middle of armed conflict León Valencia, Writer, journalist. Director of the Nuevo Arco Iris Corporation. Colombia
Friday 16 November 9.00 h FOURTH PANEL: Local experiences of citizen coexistence in Spain Moderator: Agustín Fernández de Losada, Director of the Department of International Relations at the Diputación of Barcelona 11.00 h Coffee break Address: From "Latino gangs" to community projects: an attempt at social recovery. The Barcelona proposal Josep Maria Lahosa i Cañellas, Director of Prevention Services at Barcelona City Council Address: An experience of community mediation and security at Santa Coloma de Gramenet Town Council Nico Villena, Assistant s Director of Social Welfare. Area of Services to People. Santa Coloma de Gramenet Town Council Roberto Jorge, Intendant for the Guardia Urbana of Santa Coloma de Gramenet Address: The promotion of civic behaviour and coexistence. An experience from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat José Conde Pérez, Deputy Mayor of Mobility and Cooperation. Councillor for Civic Behaviour. L'Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council 11.30 h FIFTH PANEL: Law, Security and Democracy Moderator: Josep Ribera, Director of the CIDOB Foundation Address: Public security in the Federal District, Mexico José Héctor Carreón Herrera, Deputy attorney to the Attorney General's Office for the Federal District of Mexico. Address: A view of Human Rights, Immigration and Citizen Security in some Andean Countries Ernesto Amézquita Camacho, President of the Colombian- Venezuelan Association for Peace and Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean
13.00 h Lunch Address: The State of Law and the Penal System: the inclusionexclusion dilemma Fernando Tenorio, Secretary General of the Latin American Forum for Urban Security and Democracy (FLASUD, A. C) 15.00 h SIXTH PANEL: Andean views of Coexistence and Citizen Security Moderator: Fernando Carrillo Flórez, Senior Adviser at the European office of the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB Massimo Pavarini. Emilia Romania, Italy Fernando Tenorio. Mexico City, Mexico Pablo E. Angarita. Medellín, Colombia José Conde. L Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain 17.00 h Coffee break 17.30 h Conclusions Marta Nin, Deputy Director of Casa Amèrica Catalunya Juan G. Sepúlveda, Recognised by the Organisation of American States (OEA) as an expert in measures for fostering trust and security. Consultant. Director of Human 18.30 h Closing address José Antonio Rodríguez González, Director of the Interior Security Studies Department (GESI). Ministry for the Interior