Geographies of Truth: Art and symbolic repair at Casa de la Memoria Museum

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1 Between the years 2012 and 2016 the Colombian government led by President Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) negotiated with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army) (FARC-EP) to end the Colombian conflict, which eventually led to the Peace Agreement. Negotiations began in September 2012 and took place mainly in Havana, Cuba. Negotiators announced a final agreement to end the conflict in August 2016. However, a referendum to ratify the agreement on 2 October 2016 was unsuccessful after 50.2% of voters voted against the agreement with 49.8% in favour. Subsequently, the Colombian government and FARC signed a revised peace agreement on 24 November and sent it to Congress for ratification instead of holding a second referendum. Both houses of Congress ratified the revised peace agreement on 29–30 November 2016.

2 La Violencia was a ten-year civil war (1948-1958) between the Colombian Conservative Party and Colombian Liberal Party.

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Adriana Valderrama Lopez

Adriana Valderrama Lopez is a Psychologist with a Master in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution and PhD researcher in the School of Art and Humanities in the Programme of Heritage and Museum studies at Ulster University. Adriana has worked as a full-time professor in the School of Law and Political Science at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana where she lectured on subjects related with conflict, transitional justice, and political philosophy with a focus on critical theory and psychoanalysis. Her current research examines contested curatorial practice in societies dealing with a difficult past such as Colombia and Norther Ireland. She is the former director (2016-2018) of Casa de la Memoria Museum, Medellin, Colombia.