by Karol Benavides | Oct 21, 2017 | English Reports
The Peace agreement was finally signed. The start of 2017 was marked by the same trend towards the end of 2016: Polarization, skepticism, historical decline in violence in the context of confrontation between the State and the FARC, illegal armed groups inhabiting...
by Karol Benavides | Mar 21, 2016 | English Reports
Colombia is preparing itself for the definitive cessation of armed conflict, but not without first traversing the complex path of negotiation with armed insurgencies. The context and political maturity of the different national actors seem to indicate that we have...
by Karol Benavides | Oct 21, 2015 | English Reports
Yes, that is indeed how we wanted to call this edition of the half-yearly report, January to June 2015, of the We Are Defenders Program (Programa Somos Defensores). We decided on this name in memory of the writer Eduardo Galeano, but most of all, because of the...
by Karol Benavides | Mar 21, 2015 | English Reports
Colombia began on the path to armed conflict for one fundamental reason: it has never been a state that guarantees human rights. Historically, its governing classes excluded the political participation of the sectors that refused to submit themselves to the two...
by Karol Benavides | Oct 21, 2014 | English Reports
The first six months of 2014 reflected an important struggle for Colombia. It was a struggle between the continuation of the war and a politic al and negotiated solution to the armed conflict that has spilt blood for 50 years in the country. In this struggle, the social...
by Karol Benavides | Mar 21, 2014 | English Reports
The year 2013 was one of paradoxes. The government continued peace negotiations with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) in Havana, Cuba; maintained its discourse promoting recognition of the victims of the armed conflict and the advances in the...
