FARC

The ruling by the transitional justice tribunal, though criticized by some victims, brings hope that the country may soon turn the page.

Anthony Dest’s Dissident Peace is a study of political possibilities in Colombia in a period that begins with the signing

Failed peace negotiations and the battle for control over valuable territory have produced an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.

In the southern Colombian department of Huila, Enrique Chimonja and his family are using institutional spaces of transitional justice to search for his father and to heal the wounds of the armed conflict.

Across cities and rural areas, Indigenous, Afro-Colombian, and peasant communities are leading the resistance against the state's dismantling of Colombia's 2016 Peace Accords under President Iván Duque.

Demobilized former combatants in Colombia's five-decade war are facing emotional challenges in understanding and contending with their pasts as they seek to reintegrate into civilian society.

Campesinos colombianos en Briceño han arrancado voluntariamente sus plantas de coca a cambio de apoyo gubernamental para cultivar nuevas cosechas. Pero con el retraso de mucha ayuda, la economía local se ha derrumbado y la presencia de un nuevo grupo disidente de las FARC amenaza traer más violencia.

Colombian campesinos in Briceño, Antioquia have voluntarily uprooted their coca plants in exchange for government support to grow new crops. But with much aid delayed, the local economy has collapsed, and the presence of a newly formed dissident FARC group threatens more violence.

The arrival of demobilization efforts to a remote, former FARC stronghold in Colombia has brought many welcome changes and challenges to the local community. An anti-peace president in Colombia could reverse such gains.

The FARC's new political party ran their first campaign in Colombia's March congressional elections, despite challenges and delays in implementing the peace accords. Following the campaign in Bogotá brings the FARC's urban vision to light.

As leadership in Bogotá fails to provide resources for former FARC territories to transition out of coca production, a battle for control over the drug trade reignites the Colombian countryside. 

As a 53-year civil war winds down, coca growers face growing pressure to shelve their lucrative crop.