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Peace Summit 2014 to take place this Saturday on the Ecuador-Colombia border
an article by Andes, Agencia Pública de Noticias del Ecuador y Suramérica
An intercultural meeting for peace will take place this
Saturday [Aug. 16] on the slopes of the Chiles volcano 0n
the Andean border between Ecuador and Colombia, where
indigenous people from the Pasto culture as well as local
townspeople will gather to promote integration processes,
security and development of the border towns. 
The Pasto sun is the icon that links communities descended from the Andean culture on the border between Ecuador and Colombia. Photo: Edison Guerrón / Andes
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"The Border Network, intends the event to inspire local
authorities to be ambassadors of peace, to be involved from
their spaces of participation and power, in order to
contribute to the construction of citizenship that more just,
more equitable, where there is more development, and
production, here on the border," according to Sandra
Chalapud Escobar, president of the Border Network for Peace
in Carchi.
These summits have been held annually now for four years
to promote a culture of peace in the binational border and to
reaffirm the bonds of brotherhood among peoples. This year
emphasizes the rights of women and persons in need of
international protection.
Host communities are La Esperanza, Tufiño parish in
Ecuador, and Chiles, in the municipality of Cumbal, the
Colombian department of Nariño, the villages along the
border.
The meeting is expected to attract than 2,000 people
attending an open house, reading a manifesto for peace at
the border, appointing new ambassadors of peace, as well as
interventions by artists from both countries and a ritual of
harmonization for the volcano Chiles.
Silvia Salgado, vice president of the Andean Parliament, told
Andes that several processes for peace are being developed
along the border area by indigenous communities, in parallel
to the talks in Havana between the Colombian government
and delegates from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC).
"They are talking about peace, there is a negotiation with the
FARC, there is a negotiation with the National Liberation
Army (ELN), but our view is that it is not the table where the
ideas of society are integrated, of those affected, "Salgado
said.
"We are constantly in meetings for peace, and that means
involving, for example, women, youth, artists, workers,
indigenous people," she added.
Salgado recalled that the border is also inhabited by the Awá
indigenous peoples in the area of Imbabura, Carchi and
Esmeraldas (Ecuador Coast and Sierra) and the Tumaco
(Colombia coast) and the Cofan in Putumayo (Eastern
Colombia).
(Click here for a Spanish version of this article)
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