Petro’s concept of “total peace” goes beyond negotiations with illegal armed groups. Andrei Gómez-Suárez and Margarita Ermini* argue that the new policy signals a paradigm shift in peacebuilding.
On 25 th March, the Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD) team working for a negotiation between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN), together with the University of Winchester’s Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace (CRRP), held a public dialogue
¿Se alinearán los estrellas para negociar la paz con el ELN? Karen Arteaga Garzón, Gwen Burnyeat, Andrei Gómez-Suárez y Germán Otálora Gallego, miembros de ReD, argumentan que las posibilidades de una futura negociación con el ELN dependen de una solución a las tensiones geopolíticas entre Estados Unidos, Cuba, Venezuela y Colombia.
Will the stars align for peace with the ELN? ReD members Karen Arteaga Garzón, Gwen Burnyeat, Andrei Gómez-Suárez and Germán Otálora Gallego argue that the possibilities of any future negotiations with the ELN guerrilla depend on finding a solution to the tense regional geopolitics between the US, Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia.
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