On 9 July 2020, Embrace Dialogue and the Kroc Institute held a public dialogue to discuss ‘The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies’ Fourth Report on the state of implementation of the 2016 Final Peace Accord’, examining the period December 2018- November 2019.
This Snapshot brings together the challenges of political reincorporation related to the FARC party, taking into account the creation of new groups that seek to represent the interest of some former members of the FARC-EP guerrilla group.
This snapshot summarises the highlights of our event, “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Reincorporation of the FARC in Colombia”. We heard from FARC ex-combatants from the formerly named Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation (ETCRs in Spanish), and Laura Villa, representative for the FARC in the National Reincorporation Council (CNR), who discussed the challenges they faced before and during the pandemic, and how they are providing creative solutions to this global crisis from their territories.
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