Colombia's Farewell to Civil War: Reaching Closure in a Divided Society

Abstract

The paper examines the endgame of the Colombian peace process. Since 2012, the Colombian national government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) have negotiated the conditions of the end of the armed conflict. In this paper we trace the most important issues and milestones leading up to the current situation. The paper is part of a larger book project examining how negotiations end in different realms of social life, edited by William Zartman.