In the years after Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization AUC demobilized, thousands of its demobilized members were assassinated. FARC rebels, currently negotiating peace with the government, could await the same fate.
Almost 90 of Colombia’s 1,100 municipalities are extreme risk of violence in the event FARC rebels demobilize and will require rapid state intervention to prevent criminal power vacuums, according to…
Protection against paramilitary violence was a central topic in US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visits Monday with peace negotiators for the Colombian government and FARC guerrillas.
The United Nations, in charge of monitoring a future peace deal between Colombia’s government and FARC rebels, warned Monday about a possible surge in violence by paramilitary successor groups if the FARC…
The European Union (EU) envoy to Colombia’s peace process met with victims of the conflict who are going through a reparations process in the capital Bogota.
Her voice cracking and hands trembling, Adriana holds up a silhouette she has drawn of her body in front of 33 other rape survivors sitting in a circle at a…
Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday he estimated that more than 17,000 FARC rebels will demobilize if a peace deal with the guerrilla group is signed.
The United Kingdom will contribute $7.6 million to international funds that seek to finance ongoing peace efforts in Colombia, the British government announced.
The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff has pledged continued strong US military support for Colombia, saying that massive security challenges will follow a peace treaty with the…