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On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a revised peace accord that marked a political end to over a half-century of war. Feel the Grass Grow traces the far less visible aspects of moving from war to peace: the decades of campesino struggle to defend life, land, and territory prior to the national accord, as well as campesino social leaders' engagement with the challenges of the state's post-accord reconstruction efforts. In the words of the campesino organizers, \"peace is not signed, peace is built.\" Drawing on nearly a decade of extensive ethnographic and participatory research, Angela Jill Lederach advances a theory of \"slow peace.\" Slowing down does not negate the urgency that animates the defense of territory in the context of the interlocking processes of political and environmental violence that persist in post-accord Colombia. Instead, Lederach shows how the campesino call to \"slowness\" recenters grassroots practices of peace, grounded in multigenerational struggles for territorial liberation. In examining the various layers of meaning embedded within campesino theories of \"the times (los tiempos),\" this book directs analytic attention to the holistic understanding of peacebuilding found among campesino social leaders. Their experiences of peacebuilding shape an understanding of time as embodied, affective, and emplaced. The call to slow peace gives primacy to the everyday, where relationships are deepened, ancestral memories reclaimed, and ecologies regenerated.

Colombia's long path towards peace was marked by the signing of a peace agreement in 2016 that was supposed to officially put an end to the longest-running conflict in modern Latin America. Even after more than four years, violence continues to plague the country. Although the conflict's origin is complex and multicausal, some of its root causes, such as socioeconomic inequality, limited political participation and the state's absence in several regions, remain unsettled. Since the effects of this conflict's prolongation go far beyond Colombian national borders, the international community has been morally obliged to cooperate with the national government to support the building of sustainable peace in the country by helping to tackle some of the structural causes of the conflict. Specifically, The European Trust Fund for Colombia (EUTF for Colombia) – established in December 2016 – embodies the EU's aim to contribute to sustainable development in the long run. The following study attempts to examine the EU peacebuilding strategy in Colombia in the aftermath of the conflict.

Chronicles the peace process negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia In Between the Sword and the Wall: The Santos Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia , Harvey Kline, a noted expert on contemporary Colombian politics, brings to a close his multivolume chronicle of the incessant violence that has devastated Colombia’s population, politics, and military for decades. This, his newest work on the subject, recounts and analyzes the negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which ended with a peace agreement in 2016. The FARC insurgency began in 1964, and every Colombian president after 1980 unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a peace agreement with the group. Kline analyzes how the Santos administration was ultimately able to negotiate peace with the FARC. The agreement failed to receive the approval of the Colombian people in an October 2016 plebiscite, but a renegotiated version was later approved by the congress in the same year. Afterward, more than 7,000 rebels turned over their weapons to the UN mission in Colombia. The former combatants were then to be judged by a special court empowered to punish but not imprison those who had violated human rights. Throughout the book, Kline emphasizes the dual nature of the Santos negotiations, first with the FARC and second with the democratic opposition to the agreement led by former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Kline provides readers with a well-researched analysis based on a variety of resources, including media articles and primary documents from the government, international organizations, and the FARC. He also conducted extensive interviews with twenty-eight government officials and Colombian experts from all ideological persuasions.

En este libro se aportan datos y argumentos sobre el proceso de expansión de las TICs que adelanta el gobierno nacional de Colombia con el objetivo de cerrar las brechas digitales entre las poblaciones rurales y las grandes ciudades del país. Las zonas rurales en Colombia han estado marcadas históricamente por condiciones de violencia estructural. Los campesinos colombianos han vivido décadas de exclusión de servicios esenciales como la electricidad, salud y educación. Esta vulnerabilidad se ha alimentado, en gran medida, por el difícil acceso a estos territorios y, sobre todo, por la omisión institucional de los agentes gubernamentales. El campo colombiano no ha sido protagonista en la historia de modernización del país, pero sí ha sido un escenario natural para el conflicto armado durante décadas. Es por ello que analizamos la problemática de la democratización de las TICs, como el más reciente capítulo de una historia de exclusiones al campesino en las agendas del desarrollo colombiano. En este libro exploramos la forma como se implementa la estrategia de digitalización del gobierno nacional de Colombia; desde las promesas de digitalización del campo colombiano que surgieron en la Mesa de La Habana, hasta los actuales aciertos y retrocesos de la política pública Gobierno Digital de Iván Duque Márquez en el marco de la crisis del COVID-19.

Esta obra es resultado del trabajo adelantado por los autores en las líneas de acción del Centro de Pensamiento UNCaribe y del grupo de investigación Conflictos y posconflictos desde el Caribe, ambos de la Universidad del Norte. Se enmarca en la iniciativa del Centro de Pensamiento por articular diversas investigaciones acerca de las dinámicas del conflicto armado, sus actores y la construcción de paz en y desde el Caribe colombiano. En este sentido, busca contribuir a la superación de los tradicionales marcos de interpretación de las realidades regionales, construidos desde el mundo andino, y, además, constituirse en un insumo para la formulación de políticas públicas que generen y fortalezcan procesos de construcción de paz territorial en el Caribe.

Este libro recoge el trabajo de un grupo de profesores y estudiantes de posgrado de la Universidad de los Andes y de varios coautores externos sobre distintas facetas de las interacciones colombianas con el mundo. Los profesores y los estudiantes forman parte del Centro de Estudios Internacionales y de los departamentos de Ciencia Política, Filosofía, Antropología y Lenguas y Cultura, las facultades de Derecho y Administración y la Escuela de Gobierno Alberto Lleras Camargo, entre otros. El libro ofrece insumos variados y complementarios a partir de los enfoques disciplinarios de sus autores. Entre ellos, se destacan la crítica a los lugares comunes que se reproducen constantemente en el estudio de la política exterior colombiana, el papel de Colombia en los procesos comerciales, de inversión y de cooperación internacional, la importación de discursos globales, la participación en foros internacionales sobre temas clave (como el cambio climático), la construcción de escenarios de amenaza o éxito para justificar políticas de seguridad y las estrategias empleadas por diversos actores nacionales para legitimar en el ámbito internacional sus objetivos.

Why are some places successful in moving from war to consolidated peace while others continue to be troubled by violence? And why does postconflict violence take different forms and have different intensities? By developing a new theory of postconflict violence Patrick Barron's When Violence Works makes a significant contribution to our understanding. Barron picks out three postconflict regions in Indonesia in which to analyze what happens once the \"official\" fighting ends: North Maluku has seen peace consolidated; Maluku still witnesses large episodes of violence; and Aceh experiences continuing occurrences of violence but on a smaller scale than in Maluku. He argues that violence after war has ended (revenge killings, sexual violence, gang battles, and violent crime, in addition to overtly political conflict) is not the result of failed elite bargains or weak states, but occurs because the actors involved see it as beneficial and lowcost. His findings pertain directly to Indonesia, but the theory will have relevance far beyond as those studying countries such as Colombia, the Philippines, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria seek a framework in which to assess what happens after war ends. Barron's theory also provides practical guidance for policymakers and development practitioners. Ultimately, When Violence Works pushes forward our understanding of why postconflict violence occurs and takes the forms it does.

Charts the progress and failure of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana’s efforts to bring an end to sixty years of civil war. The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for almost sixty years with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties and with bursts of appalling violence punctuated by uneasy truces, cease-fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism, the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant land hunger, poverty, and oppression mix together in a toxic stew that has claimed uncounted lives of (most often) peasants, conscript soldiers, and people who just got in the way. Hope for resolution of this conflict is usually confined to dreamers and millenialists of various persuasions, but occasionally an attempt is made at a breakthrough in the military stalemate between the government and the Marxist groups. One of the most promising such attempts was made by new Colombian President Andrés Pastrana at a time when the main rebel groups seemed receptive to serious dialogue. This book is an account of that effort at peace, accompanied at the outset by domestic and international support and hope, and yet doomed like so many others to eventual failure. Through interviews with many of the actors in this drama, as well as an understanding of the various interest groups and economic forces at work in Colombia, Dr. Kline charts the progress and ultimate failure of this effort, and thereby hopes to increase understanding of the causes of its lack of success. The importance of the resolution of the conflict to the region and to ordinary citizens of this troubled land cannot be overstated.

Integrity is crucial in order to ensure sustainable peace in Colombia. This report provides a focused analysis of Colombia’s integrity system, addressing existing gaps and elaborating policy recommendations on how to build a coherent public integrity system. The review pays special attention to improving co-ordination at the national level and with the regions, cultivating a culture of integrity in the public administration, and enabling effective accountability through internal control and risk management. It emphasises the priority of mainstreaming integrity policies in the processes and sectors related to the implementation of the Peace Agreement to prevent corruption and to contribute to the inclusive and sustainable development of the country.