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An October 2016 peace rally in Bogota, just before the final accords were signed with the FARC guerillas. John Vizcaino/Reuters

Advice for Colombia from countries that have sought peace – and sometimes found it

What can Colombia can learn from other nations’ transitions, both successful and unsuccessful, from war to peace?
Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manual Santos had promised to end the conflict before the end of 2016, opposition notwithstanding. Jaime Saldarriaga/Reuters

Colombia has a new peace agreement, but will it stick?

The South American nation is poised to end its 52-year civil war after a halting peace process that has used the weapons of both war and democracy.
Author Gabriel García Márquez – the first Colombian to win a Nobel prize, for literature – also dreamed of peace. John Vizcaino/Reuters

Among Colombian Nobel winners and peace seekers, Gabriel García Márquez still looms largest

From the yellow butterflies of his ‘Hundred Years of Solitude’ to his Nobel acceptance speech, author Gabriel García Márquez remains ever present in his country’s peace process.
Colombians march in the city of Cali to support the peace deal that was narrowly rejected in an October 2 plebiscite. The 50%-50% vote showed how polarized the country is. Jaime Saldarriaga/Reuters

Santos has won his Nobel prize, but peace eludes the Colombian people

Nobel Prize aside, Colombia continues to choose war over peace and uncertainty over resolution. Is it something ingrained in the national psyche, or the product of a tangled-up political process?

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