A round-table oral activity

Round table is a form of academic discussion. Participants agree on a specific

topic to discuss and debate. Each person is given equal right to participate

General Guidelines
BEFORE THE ACTIVITY:

1.During two or three weeks you will be followers of the peace process in
Colombia. (Before and after the plebiscite).

2. You will watch or listen to the national and international news in different mass
media (TV, INTERNET,ETC.).
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIIAw%253D
%253D&q=about+the+peace+process+in+colombia

3. Pay attention to the different opinions: positive, negative about the process. Also
about the advantages and disadvantages for the country. Include the international
or global opinion.

4. Be ready for assuming a position: for or against and participate activily.

Questions to be discussed in a round-table activity in class

1. When did the talks between the Colombian government and the FARC
(Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia start in the Havana?

2. How many people approximately have been killed in the last 52-year-conflict?
3. Read the following passage and think about this number (7.000.000) seven
million people or victims as a result of 52-year-conflict in our country? And What
are the main reasons for those massacres?
More than seven million people have registered with the government's Victim's
Unit. The vast majority have been internally displaced by the violence, but many
have also been kidnapped, threatened, injured by landmines or forcibly
disappeared.
However, not all of the violence is caused by Farc insurgents.
The National Centre for Historical Memory found that more than half of the
massacres in the past three decades had been carried out by right-wing
paramilitaries, originally created to combat the Farc..
Criminal gangs vying for control of Colombia's lucrative cocaine production have
also become an increasing threat.

4. Did you vote? Why?

5. What were your expectations before the plebiscite?
6. What are your expectations now?
7. Imagine, you can participate in the negotiations in the peace process read the
acuerdo final final agreement that was signed last September 26 th in Cartagena
and select one item (article) that you agree and think is very useful and one article
you do not agree. In both cases, give your reasons.

More than 220,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the 51-year-conflict

Possible nswers:

The Colombian government and the country's largest left-wing rebel group,
the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), are trying to end more
than five decades of armed conflict.
The two sides began formal peace talks in November 2012 in the Cuban capital,
Havana.
Since then, they have reached agreement on four key topics and have set
themselves a deadline of 23 March 2016 to sign a final document.