In June 2016, the government of Colombia signed a historic peace agreement with the armed rebel group known as FARC-EP to end a conflict that over five decades had taken the lives of at least 260,000 Colombians and displaced over 7 million. Three years later, the peace accord—a complex effort to not only stop the fighting but also address the underlying causes of the conflict, and to seek truth, justice, and reconciliation for victims—remains not fully implemented as new political disputes and leaders have hampered its progress.
On this episode, experts Ted Piccone and Vanda Felbab-Brown explain the situation and how to move forward.
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Authors
Commentary
PodcastColombia’s search for peace and justice
Vanda Felbab-Brown,
Vanda Felbab-Brown
Director
- Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors,
Co-Director
- Africa Security Initiative,
Senior Fellow
- Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
@VFelbabBrown
Ted Piccone, and
Ted Piccone
Nonresident Senior Fellow
- Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
@piccone_ted
Fred Dews
Fred Dews
Managing Editor, New Digital Products
- Office of Communications
@publichistory
August 23, 2019