Moreover, the turnout in the referendum was very low, so that the peace treaty was rejected by a narrow majority. However, the population rejected the peace agreement unexpectedly: numerous demands by various civil-society actors had not been taken into account.

In October 2016, after four years of negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC (formerly for Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia вЂ“ Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, after 2017 stands for Political Party Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del ComГєn), a referendum on the peace agreement was held.

Since end 2016, a peace agreement between Government and FARC ended a conflict of over half a century that had claimed over 220,000 victims and six million internally displaced persons. At the same time, there has been a multitude of peace initiatives within civil society that work to break with this logic and to achieve the transformations Colombia needs for peace. The logic of violence has permeated public and private life. Over five decades of armed conflict have left deep traces in Colombian society. The consortium of Como-Berghof and its team in Colombia has been active in the framework of the German Development Cooperation's ProPaz programme, supporting actors from different sectors and national, regional and local level to better engage for peace. Our work supports conflict transformation, violence prevention and the implementation of ColombiaвЂ™s 2016 peace agreement at and from a subnational level. Our work accompanied Colombian actors in developing and implementing conflict transformation and peace efforts on different levels, and shares the lessons learnt in order to improve national policies.ДЇocusing on regional peacebuilding in Colombia, our team and its network have been advising departments and municipalities on better transforming their violent conflict by using existing processes, such as for example, integrating peacebuilding in their regional and local development plans. PAST PROJECT Regional peacebuilding in Colombia Participants of the workshop вЂњCapacity building for participation in multi-actor dialogue spaces associated with territorial conflicts of the Bari peopleвЂќ, 2018 in ChinГЎcota.

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