 My name is Oscar Escobar, I am the major of Palmyra in Colombia, and we are here in the Institute of Peace because we believe the work that we have been doing in Palmyra is very important. It can be replicated around the world, giving opportunity to young people in order to prevent violence. Our program is called PASOS, which in Spanish means Pass and Opportunidades, Peace and Opportunity for Young. Colombia is a country where violence has hit really hard, and especially in Palmyra, in our region, we have been for like nine years straight in the list of the 50 most violent cities in the world. So we have that problem, which is not only viewed internationally, but of course by the people, in the neighborhoods, by the average citizen feeling insecure by that high homicide rate. So with that diagnostic, we decided to go deep in where was happening, the 20 neighborhoods most affected, and to whom, which is the young men especially. So we created PASOS in order to address that in an innovative way in terms of understanding that violence is not going to be prevented through a lot of police, which we don't even have. As a major, we don't have the capacity to create our own police in Colombia or to put more police in the streets. So it is an innovative approach through different social areas, especially in those neighborhoods in order to create another environment and another way of thinking in the young people involved. There's no ability to do social programs if you do not enforce law, because then we will become an NGO, and we're not an NGO, we're the government. So we do have policing, we do have rewards for people who give us information to catch criminals. We do have to do a lot of that, and people ask for that. But we do also have to open the door of opportunity for many of these young people who have been previously engaged in criminal activity due to lack of opportunity. Police is actually very much receptive of the strategy, because they feel it as a support. They feel it for them is important that the major service understands that the security problems in the city are not going to be solved all by the police and that you need to have a comprehensive approach in order to create a more peaceful environment. The keys for the success of PASO strategy has been that ability to work with the private sector, NGOs, and broad community organizations. It didn't start that way, I have to say. We created it, and it was a program that was implemented top-down. We also had the pandemic, so it couldn't do a lot of networking in that moment, and there was another priority. But then after the national strike of 2021, that was the moment where we could directly reach Compromiso Valle, which is a strategy for all the private sector of the Valle del Cauca region, who decided to invest hardly and decisively in violence prevention, and they found that our strategy was reaching the same goal, so we created trust in between each other, and we started working together with many foundations, like SIDOC Foundation, which has the program called For Hando Oportunidades, in which we have had the most impact in reducing violence and in changing the lives of so many young people in Palmyra.