Peace Accords

December 6, 2022
Joseph Hiller

Six years after the peace accords, former guerrillas develop alternative economies and livelihoods through micro-breweries and cultural spaces.

September 18, 2020
Thomas Power

Under President Duque, massacres are on the rise, especially in areas where FARC-EP guerrillas previously controlled territory.

February 19, 2020
Hilary Goodfriend

As President Nayib Bukele challenges the key tenets of the peace accords in El Salvador, the stakes for the country’s nascent postwar democracy have never been higher.

December 3, 2019
Amanda C. Waterhouse

As Colombian demonstrators clamor for inclusive policies, genuine peace, and respect for human rights, the elite recycle discourses decrying “vandalism” that aim to delegitimize dissent.

July 19, 2018
Alex Diamond

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.

June 29, 2018
Forrest Hylton and Aaron Tauss

Right-wing Uribe protégé Iván Duque is the next president of Colombia. But not all is lost: The Colombian Left had its most impressive turn-out in history.

June 14, 2018
Erna von der Walde

In Sunday’s presidential elections, peace is on the ballot as a new nation takes shape.

April 17, 2018
Emma Shaw Crane

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.

February 7, 2017
Chelsey Dyer

The Trump administration and regional rightward shift creates an imperative for a new kind of transnational solidarity with Colombia. 

September 29, 2016
Débora Silva

The historic peace deal between the FARC and the Colombian government holds unique challenges for the thousands of female combatants reintegrating into Colombian society.

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