EU-LAC COOPERATION in the 21St CENTURY: COMBINING EFFORTS in a GLOBALISED WORLD IFAIR Impact Group ‘Lacalytics’ Policy Paper Series, Vol.1
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EU-LAC COOPERATION IN THE 21st CENTURY: COMBINING EFFORTS IN A GLOBALISED WORLD IFAIR Impact Group ‘LACalytics’ Policy Paper Series, vol.1 The caribbean EUROPE LATIN AMERICA EDITORS : T. Lieb, L. Fried, J. Klein, J. Klever, F. Scheifele ENGLISH IN COOPERATION WITH: IFAIR Impact Group ‘LACalytics’ Policy Paper Series, vol.1 EU-LAC COOPERATION IN THE 21st CENTURY: COMBINING EFFORTS IN A GLOBALISED WORLD Editors T. Lieb, L. Fried, J. Klein, J. Klever, F. Scheifele ENGLISH Berlin, 2016 Published by Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs and International Relations (IFAIR) e.V. District Court Berlin Charlottenburg | Register of Associations: VR 30447 B | www.ifair.eu Authors Sheena Ali, Christian Alvarez, Stefanie Beßler, Morna Cannon, Collin Constantine, Renato Constantino, Maria Cuellar, Emilie D’Amico, Danielle Edwards, Marina Diefenbach Goulart, Lilla Hajdu, Manuel Jung, Lily Cornelia van der Loeff, Agnes Medinacelli, Katharina Moers, Juliana de Moraes Pinheiro, Alice Pease, Johanna Renz, Bérengère Sim, Juliana Tappe, Juana Karelia Tercero Ubau, Ana Martha Trueba de Buen, Maria Cristina Vargas, Claudia Wiese Text Revision Leo Fried, Johannes Klein, Joanna Klever, Theresa Lieb, Fabian Scheifele, EU-LAC Foundation Graphic Design Ana-Maria Ghinita | behance.net/anamariaghinita Print Scharlau GmbH | Hühnerposten 14 , 20097 Hamburg Special Acknowledgements IFAIR expresses its gratitude to the EU-LAC Foundation for funding this publication and supporting the technical revision process of its contents. IFAIR also thanks the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany for assuming the patronage of LACalytics. Disclaimer The opinions expressed by the authors are a representation of their personal views and should not in any way be ascribed to their organisations of affiliation or to the publishers of this publication. The layout and printing of this study was financed by the EU-LAC Foundation. The EU-LAC Foundation is funded by its member states and the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and cannot be considered as the point of view of the EU-LAC Foundation, its member states or the European Union. This book was published in 2016. This publication is copyright but the text may be used free of charge for the purposes of advocacy, campaigning, education, and research, provided that the source is properly acknowledged. 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Berlin: Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs and International Relations e.V., 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS Authors and Editors ...................................................................................................... 6 The Idea behind LACalytics ........................................................................................ 16 Building Bridges between the EU and LAC ............................................................... 18 The LACalytics Patronage ...........................................................................................20 POLITICS ..................................................................................................................... 23 PROLOGUE ....................................................................................................................................................24 The Invisible Migration ................................................................................................................................28 The Colombian Peace Talks and Collective Memory - Peace Hurts ..................................................36 Turn Left, Turn Right or Go Forward? The Challenges and Opportunities for MERCOSUR in Post-Pink Tide Latin America ..........................................................................................42 ENVIRONMENT ........................................................................................................ 49 PROLOGUE ....................................................................................................................................................50 Windward Islands: Community Energy for Rural Growth in the Caribbean ....................................54 Taking the Environment into Account: The First Step Towards a Greener Growth .......................62 Solar Energy on the Rooftops in Nicaragua ...........................................................................................70 ECONOMICS .............................................................................................................. 75 PROLOGUE ....................................................................................................................................................76 Can LAC Learn from Europe’s Mistakes? Divergence in Regional Economic Integration .............80 Economic Development without Extractivism? La Guajira Department in Colombia ...................88 Trade in Services in Tourism: the Blind Spot of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement ...........................................................................................................96 CIVIL SOCIETY .........................................................................................................103 PROLOGUE ..................................................................................................................................................104 Building Bridges - Drawing Borders .......................................................................................................108 How Inclusive is Inclusive Education? The Opportunities of Children with Disabilities in Peru and Hungary ................................................................................................................................................ 116 Coca and Conflict .......................................................................................................................................124 Authors Sheena Ali | Trinidad and Tobago Sheena is a Master’s student in Global Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Here, she also pursued a Bachelor of Science in International Relations and Social Development Policy and Planning. Sheena has worked in project management and human resources for the Ministry of Health and several private companies in Trinidad and Tobago. Moreover, she is a volunteer with Amnesty International and an online UN Volunteer. She plans to continue her focus on development studies, specialising in poverty eradication and social issues. Stefanie Beßler | Germany Stefanie is a Master’s student in Latin American Studies at the University of Vienna. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from the ESB Business School. Having studied abroad in Buenos Aires and having gained country-specific insights during several stays in Central and South America, she is passionate about this region. Alongside various internships in the private sector, she also participated in the development politics program ASA which allowed her to gain work experience in Bolivia in a governmental institute. María Camila Cuellar | Colombia María Camila is sub-director of Crime Responsibility at the International Foundation Baltasar Garzon (ICBF), where she previously worked as director. Maria Camila concluded her Master´s degree in International Law and International Legal Studies at the University of Los Andes. She worked for over six years for the Colombian verification processes, providing guidance and support for the demobilisation of paramilitary groups. She has experience in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes (DDR), transitional justice, land restitution, human rights and support to victims of violence. 6 ifair.eu AUTHORS Morna Cannon | Great Britain Morna is a Master´s student of International Economic Policy at SciencesPo in Paris. She pursued her undergraduate degree in Land Economy at Cambridge University, concentrating on environmental law and economics. Following graduation in 2007, she worked for almost a decade in the renewable energy industry in the UK, initially as a lobbyist and then as a project manager for an offshore wind developer. Her research focuses on the economic aspects of climate change and renewables, with a special regional interest in Latin America. Collin Constantine | Guyana Collin is a PhD student in Economics at Kingston University and a member of the Political Economy Research Group (PERG). His dissertation investigates the determinants of the current account imbalances of the Eurozone and his research interests extend to institutions, inequality, development economics and new political economy. He holds a Master of Science in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London, and has been a recipient of a PhD studentship from Kingston University in 2015. Renato Constantino | Peru Renato is currently finishing his Master in Human Rights at the Pontificial Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), where he also