On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Sergio Jaramillo (Deputy Minister of Defence for Colombia) gave an address on the topic of "Colombia: Drugs, Insurgency and the Search for Peace"
A summary of his address is available below.
Sergio Jaramillo has served as Deputy Minister of Defence for Colombia since October 2006, having previously served as an adviser to the Colombian Defence Minister between 2002-2004 when he was responsible for the development and coordination of the Colombian Government’s Defence and Democratic Security Policy. He has also worked in the Colombian Foreign Ministry, including a posting as political officer to the Colombian Embassy in Paris. He has also headed the Ideas for Peace Foundation in Bogota.
Mr Jaramillo studied Philosophy and Greek at the University of Toronto, holds a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge and has studied at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
