The Impact of the Collective Reincorporation of Former FARC-EP Fighters on the Local Reconstruction of the Social Fabric in Colombia
Reconstructing the social fabric is one of the greatest challenges of building peace after civil war. A central element in this process is the normalization of relationships and the reduction of mistrust between former combatants and the population they are reintegrating into. In the case of the ongoing peace process with the FARC-EP in Colombia, the reintegration of former guerrilla fighters was organized as a collective process, called reincorporation: After the signing of the peace agreement in late 2016, groups of demobilized FARC-EP members gathered in cantonments in rural areas, which were initially meant to be transitory but which, for the most part, lasted for years and, in part, have turned into permanent settlements. The project, with support from the Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ) and Rice University, analyzes the impact of this collective reincorporation process on the reconstruction of the social fabric at the local level. It does so by combining a survey and qualitative research in seven selected municipalities.
The project is carried out in cooperation with the project "From War to Peace? Impacts of community-based reincorporation of former FARC combatants on local security settings".
- Barrios Sabogal, Laura Camila
- Wolff, Jonas
- López Álvarez, Santiago
- Reintegration through Local Interactions: The Colombian Peace Process from the Perspective of Rural Communities | 2023
Barrios Sabogal, Laura Camila / López Álvarez, Santiago / Wolff, Jonas (2023): Reintegration through Local Interactions: The Colombian Peace Process from the Perspective of Rural Communities, TraCe Policy Briefs, 8.11.2023.
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- La reconstrucción del tejido social mediante la interacción entre comunidades y excombatientes de las FARC-EP | 2023
López Álvarez, Santiago / Wolff, Jonas / Barrios Sabogal, Laura Camila (2023): La reconstrucción del tejido social mediante la interacción entre comunidades y excombatientes de las FARC-EP, CAPAZ Policy Brief 10-2023, 27.10.2023.
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- Reintegration durch lokale Interaktion | 2023
Barrios Sabogal, Laura Camila / López Álvarez, Santiago / Wolff, Jonas (2023): Reintegration durch lokale Interaktion. Der kolumbianische Friedensprozess aus Sicht ländlicher Gemeinschaften, PRIF Spotlight 10/2023, Frankfurt/M, DOI: 10.48809/prifspot2310.
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