Going Local: Salvatore Mancuso – Truth Will Out

Mancuso appears before the JEP this week in video testimony from his jail in Atlanta, USA. Colombia’s peace courts heard testimony this week...

Iván Mordisco: back from the dead

The reappearance of the FARC EMC guerrilla leader, armed to the teeth, spooks the Colombian peace process. Call it an Easter surprise: shortly...

Inside a reintegration camp for Colombia’s ex-guerrilla fighters: ‘Words of reconciliation are our only weapons now’

By Camilo Tamayo Gomez, University of Huddersfield and Gavin Hart, Liverpool Hope University This article is republished from The Conversation...

State of the nation: Peace implementation

While there has been some progress, the slow implementation of Colombia’s peace agreement continues to be a source of discontent, especially as...

Implementing peace: Gender issues lag behind

Kroc Institute reports that 42% of gender commitments in Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement have not yet been started, compared with 27%...

Can renegade guerrillas reignite a war?

Renegade FARC leader Iván Márquez makes a video announcement that a splinter FARC group will retake arms. Photo: FARC-EP Confused by the recent...

Former FARC commanders announce return to arms

Former peace negotiator Iván Márquez announces the ‘armed struggle’ will continue. Iván Márquez accuses the government of failing to keep...

Photos from Medellín’s march for the lives of social leaders

"Building a different country is costing us our lives. #BeingASocialLeaderIsNotACrime," read a banner paying homage to María Pilar Hurtado, a social...

JEP budget for 2020 to reduce by 30 percent

March in defense of the JEP, Bogotá, March 2019. Image courtesy of Deposit Photos. The budget for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) will...

Guzmán: The FARC share the blame for the peace agreement’s failure

Colombia's government signed the peace agreement with the FARC-EP in September 2016. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. It’s fair to say that...