About Us

The project “Constellations for Plural Peaces” aims primarily to co-construct, through a partnership between UPEC and the Institut Pour la Paix (IPP), an interactive transmedia platform (both digital and physical) designed to enrich democratic debate around the meanings, practices, and languages of peacebuilding, coexistence, and memory in a context marked by the multiplication of wars and violence.

The omnipresence of images and narratives of war and violence in digital and public spaces leads to the invisibility of peacebuilding practices and positive forms of coexistence, which nonetheless exist even amid war and conflict. This invisibility makes it difficult to construct narratives and imagery that can express and represent practices aimed at building more just and inclusive societies.

The CpPaix project therefore seeks to create, through the co-construction of the transmedia platform, a counterpoint to hate speech and to the omnipresence of images of war and destruction in digital and public spaces, by making visible the diverse and positive ways of understanding and representing conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and the memories of war and migratory experiences.

The project also aims to combat disinformation spread across digital and public spaces by developing and disseminating a culture of peace within UPEC, thereby contributing positively to inclusion and social justice. To achieve this, the project team, made up of researchers and early-career scholars from UPEC, the National University of Colombia, Université Paris Cité, and Université Paris 8, in collaboration with the Institut Pour la Paix (IPP) will work closely with UPEC students to co-create both the conceptual and material content of the
transmedia platform.

Laura Lema Silva |
Project Lead, Lecturer in Latin American Studies, UPEC – Scientific Director, Institut Pour La Paix.

Mickael Lopes |
Co-Project Lead, Head of Operations, Institut Pour La Paix.

Salima Cure |
Anthropologist, Researcher.

Juan Sebastián Gómez-García |
Anthropologist, Dancer.

Tania Romero Barrios |
Researcher, Latin American Studies.

Fernando Garlín Politis |
Ethnologist, Illustrator.

Leila Gadhi-Larchevêque |
Institut Pour La Paix.

Paula Llinas |
Art Director, Design Lead & Developer.