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29/09/2017

Colombia: the ‘disfarc’ of peace (DIEEEO99-2017)

Colombia is the third most populated country in Latin America after Brazil and Mexico. In addition, since 1965 it has shown an uninterrupted growth of its economy in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, this economic boom has taken place in parallel with the longest conflict in the history of the country and Latin America. The signing of The Final Agreement to End the Armed Conflict and the subsequent implementation process opens to the Colombians the possibility of living in peace after more than fifty years.

One of the main challenges that we face, it is not to relativize the peace and the armed conflict end. In this regard, the High Commissioner for Peace, Sergio Jaramillo, pointed out the need to "disfarc" the peace, understanding peace not only as the absence of armed conflict, but as a long term process that means the absence of war, but also the necessary conditions to live in peace.

Author: Luis Losada Simón-Ricart

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