Colombiael desafío de implementar una paz imperfecta

Zusammenfassung

In April 2019, it would be almost three years since the government of Colombia signed a peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla, now turned into a political movement. Peace generated great expectations; however, its consolidation requires the implementation of the points included in the Final Agreement. The post-conflict stage faces multiple challenges: some of them refer to the difficulties inherent to the scenario and the deficits it aims to resolve, and others, the greater ones, are the product of political polarization, a critical political discourse about the Agreement and the acceptance of the concept of positive peace. In its first section, the document goes overthe degree of implementation and the deficits related to the main points of the Final Agreement. In the second one, it analyzes three of the greatest challenges for the country:the persistence and rise of other criminal groups,the systematic and selective assassination of social leaders which amounts to over 400 victims since the Agreement was signed and the rupture of the peace dialogues with the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN). In the third section, it analyzes the role that both Europe and Spain have played in the management of the Agreement and the post-conflict stage. Finally, in the conclusions it states that, given the possibility of a new cycle of violence, the country needs to reconsider the concept of peace, departing from the idea of an imperfect peace, as a need to institutionalize non-violent conflict management systems.