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Le\u00f3n Valencia yLe\u00f3n Valencia and Alexander Ria\u00f1o have extensive experience in armed conflict issues in Colombia. Valencia is a Political Analyst and currently works as a columnist for Semana magazine, and he has also written for Diners and Credencial magazines, and for the El Tiempo and El Colombiano newspapers. Ria\u00f1o is an Economist with a degree from the Universidad de los Andes and a Politologist with a degree from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with experience in social conflicts, Human Rights and Development, and other topics.<\/p>\n\n
Together, they have produced several research projects and publications for the Foundation, including \u201cInvesting in the Future \u2013 Guide to Building Peace from the Business Sector in Colombia,\u201d which seeks, as its name indicates, to guide the country\u2019s business owners to take actions that help them to overcome the country\u2019s armed conflict; additionally, for the mining sector in specific, they recently published \u201cMining in Post-Conflict \u2013 A Matter of Carats,\u201d focused mainly on the subject of gold, but they also address mining in general.<\/p>\n\n
Also, in our area of influence, the Peace & Reconciliation Foundation has played an important role through its presence at the roundtable discussions that have been held in the Department of Cesar to carry out joint development projects, in which the UNDP and the Departmental Government have also played a leading role.<\/p>\n\n The visit was led and accompanied by several company officials, including the Vice President of Communications and Public Relations, Pablo Urrutia, the Environmental Manager, Am\u00edlcar Valencia, the Community Relations Manager, Alfredo Ara\u00fajo, the Social Responsibility Manager, Juan Pablo Arteaga, and the Administrative Managers of the Mining Operations, Claudia Rivas, and the Port Operations, Enrique Alvarez.<\/p>\n\n The visitors expressed their appreciation for the company\u2019s invitation and their satisfaction with the information they received, which expanded their knowledge about how an open-sky coal mine operates, allowing them to approach their research and writing from an accurate perspective. The company\u2019s executives were also pleased with the Foundation\u2019s visit and the opportunity to show the company\u2019s processes and operations, extending the invitation for them to return whenever they wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The foundation\u2019s representatives got a close-up view of the main areas of the Mining and Port operations \u2013 including the direct loading system, coal extraction, treatment and transportation processes, the environmental management plans and the company\u2019s actions regarding Social Responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/drummondltd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Visita-Fundacion-Paz-y-Reconciliacion6_Drummond-Ltd-300x169-1.jpg\")