Tatiana Medina, S-CAR Masters Student

Tatiana Medina-Laborde is a Masters student at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) as well as a founding member and current President of the Global Problematique Working Group. Her motivation, along with other students, in forming this group was borne out of the realization that the world faced a myriad of interconnected conflicts that were not bound within borders.

As such, it required the concerted efforts from all stakeholders, not just from the noted relevant ones, in trying to develop sustainable and durable programs to resolve and transform conflicts. Tatiana has been working at a multilateral organization for over five years and she noted that, “The private sector has so much potential to help move conflict resolution to transformation but such work has not been developed and is very much nonexistent at this point.”

Currently, Tatiana is trying to move the progress of the working group to a type of practice she has termed “Peace Entrepreneurship” and her trip to Colombia during the summer of 2012 reinforced the need for such a body. She described her trip as an eye opening experience regarding the difficulties and apparent disconnect of theory and practice to
 fieldwork. “There were 
many great potentials for
 partnership with local 
organizations but the big 
challenge is to structure 
the right programs for
 conflict resolution,” she
 said. “We (S-CAR) have
 a great number of skills
 and it’s our task to share 
and transfer this knowledge”.