What if the FARC Demobilizes?

Authors

  • Enzo Nussio Universidad de los Andes, Carrera 1 No 18A-10, Edificio Franco, Bogotá D. C., Colombia
  • Kimberly Howe Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, 114 Curtis Street, Somerville, Massachusetts 02144, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5334/sta.aj

Keywords:

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia, disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR), peacebuilding, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)

Abstract

In September 2012, the Colombian government officially announced ongoing peace talks with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This gesture was the first of its kind since the failed negotiation process with the same guerrilla group during the government of Andrés Pastrana (1998–2002) (see Villarraga 2009). The FARC remains the largest and strongest non-state armed group operating in the country, and can be traced back to as early as 1964. Observers of the current negotiations are largely optimistic about the prospects for peace and the end of the decades-long conflict.

Author Biographies

Enzo Nussio, Universidad de los Andes, Carrera 1 No 18A-10, Edificio Franco, Bogotá D. C., Colombia

Enzo Nussio holds a PhD degree in International Affairs and Governance from the University of St.Gallen. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, financed by a prospective researcher fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and a research associate at Swisspeace. His main research interests focus on peacebuilding, especially processes of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, trust in conflict societies and urban violence. His doctoral dissertation was recently published in Colombia under the title "La vida después de la desmovilización. Percepciones, emociones y estrategias de exparamilitares en Colombia". His articles have been published in journals like Conflict, Security and Development, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

Kimberly Howe, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, 114 Curtis Street, Somerville, Massachusetts 02144, USA

Kimberly Howe is a Visiting Fellow at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. Her main research interests include: violence during war to peace transitions, urban space, governance at the sub-national level, and mixed methods designs in conflict affected areas. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Burundi, Colombia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For ten years, she worked as a psychotherapist treating survivors of interpersonal violence and political torture. She holds a PhD from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

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Published

2012-11-01

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012)

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