Laboratory of Social Innovation for Peace
The Laboratory of Social Innovation for Peace is an initiative of the National University of Colombia that was supported by Trust for the Americas and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The Laboratory is a collaborative space that provides participants with methodological tools to develop social innovation skills aimed at promoting community reconciliation and peace processes, so that they can contribute to conflict resolution in their communities, especially those affected by the armed conflict or that are currently part of post-conflict areas. The Laboratory not only trains participants, they also formulate solutions based on the knowledge they have acquired. Although the Laboratory is open to all interested parties, it seeks, especially but not exclusively, to train people from vulnerable populations, communities in the post-conflict process, victims of the conflict, and people in the process of reincorporation and reintegration.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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