FARC’s chief negotiator joined the Colombian peace negotiators and Nobel Laureates in a forum that focused on the lessons learned of the historic peace process.
The Ministry of Culture will take 20 mobile libraries to remote regions of Colombia where FARC rebels are concentrating for the handover of weapons.
The state visit by France’s François Hollande reaffirms the peace accord reached in Colombia with FARC ahead of visit Tuesday to a guerrilla demobilization zone.
After 28 years, a French head of state arrives in the Colombian capital to strengthen bilateral ties and mark the beginning of Colombia-France Year.
A spate of targeted killings, the logistics of demobilization, and guerrillas deserting the FARC all continue to threaten peace.
A press conference during the height of the narco war, offers one journalist the opportunity to become a Colombian.
2016 was the year thousands marched in cities across Colombia to demand peace between the government and FARC. For many foreigners it was a chance to be part of an historical accord.
It couldn’t get any stranger than 2016, a year in which “change” swept across the world and Colombia with its peace came out relatively unscathed.
President Juan Manuel Santos accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying it gave a boost to an “impossible dream” of ending more than a half-century of conflict in Colombia.
The revised peace accord between the Colombian Government and FARC will be signed Thursday in Bogotá’s iconic Colón Theatre.
According to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Institute, Colombia reduced its military expenditures by nearly USD$2 billion in 2015.
A new round of talks have begun in Havana to find a negotiated end to the Colombia conflict. But recent history has shown us that only former presidents Santos and Uribe can salvage a peace on the brink.
Bogotá’s emblematic Plaza de Bolívar is at the epicenter of Colombia’s push for peace. A candlelight rally and art installation by Doris Salcedo the highlights of just one week.
President Santos has extended the ceasefire with FARC until Dec. 31 to revive the peace accord rejected in the nationwide plebiscite.
Thousands have marched this week across Colombia to pressure the government and opposition to accept the final peace accord with FARC. Here a perspective from the street.
Thousands of Colombians are marching in support of the the peace accord with FARC as a deadline to end the bilateral ceasefire nears.