Safeguarding Political Guarantees in the Colombian Peace Process: have Santos and learnt the lessons from the past?

Andrei Gomez-Suarez and Jonathan Newman

Third World Quarterly, 2013, vol. 34, issue 5, 819-837

Abstract: This article discusses the lessons of previous peace processes between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (farc). It has two policy implications. In regard to Colombia it suggests that safeguarding the lives of demobilised farc members is necessary for the current peace process to succeed, hence it proposes a hybrid Specialised Protection Force (spf). In terms of peace building the article discusses the challenges for spfs to avoid becoming tools of foreign policy diplomacy that perpetuate conflicts. The article aims to contribute to both the critique of liberal peace and of the negotiating teams in the current Colombian peace process.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.800747

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