This post is also available in: Spanish (Image by Twitter) As students, professors, researchers and human rights activists, alumni, we strongly oppose this invitation for former president Alvaro Uribe to engage in this academic webinar. As a known violator to human rights and environmental rights, Uribe is a questionable person to be leading a conversation on environmental sustainability. The policies implemented during his administration as president which have been reinstated during the current presidential administration led by the same party, are inconsistent with the goals of sustainable development. In fact, his extractivist policies have achieved severe environmental degradation, forced displacement, loss of human life. We are alarmed by the aims of the conversation to extrapolate these actions to other regions and programs. We declare that Uribe is unfit to lead a discussion about sustainability, environmental security, nor democracy. We demand that this event be cancelled unless amore suitable speaker of authority on sustainable development can replace his seat.