Promoting peace and reconciliation through cooperative housing in post-conflict Colombia
The project aims to contribute to the peace process in Colombia and supports the foundation process of the first housing cooperative of "ECOMUN - Economías Sociales del Común".
Access to adequate and affordable housing plays a key role in post-conflict peace building and reconciliation. By assisting "ECOMUN - Economías Sociales del Común" in the creation of its first housing cooperative "Ciudadelas de Paz" the ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE is supporting peacebuilding in Colombia, a country recovering from over 50 years of armed conflict.
In collaboration with the Department of Architecture of National University of Colombia the ETH Wohnforum - ETH CASE is supporting 350 women and men in planning and designing their housing cooperative and in building a community centre.
The project "Peacebuilding through Housing Cooperatives in Colombia" is supported by ABZ and the City of Zurich.
- external pageUNAL – Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Insituto de Estudios Urbanos,
- external pageECOMUN – Economías Sociales del Común, Cooperativa Multiactiva para la Paz de Colombia
- external pageUrbaMonde, Swiss and French non-profit organisation for participative cities
- external pageFUCVAM, Uruguayan Federation of Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives
- external pageCity of Zurich, Urban development
- external pageABZ - Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft Zürich
- external pageCity of Zurich - Urban development