Gone with the Rebels: Reshaping Local Orders in Post-Peace Agreement Colombia

Jose Antonio Gutierrez Danton; Clara Voyvodic

doi:10.1017/lap.2024.58

Gone with the Rebels: Reshaping Local Orders in Post-Peace Agreement Colombia

Jose Antonio Gutierrez Danton, Clara Voyvodic

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Abstract

The 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP, and the demobilization of the latter, dismantled the governance structures in regions formerly under rebel control. Drawing from a relational security framework, this article explores how, across three case-studies, communities use their former experience of rebel governance as a framework through which they could express expectations and dissatisfaction with new types of order. This blueprint is also used to make specific demands to new or reconstituted armed groups and to take direct action to address governance gaps, reproducing and co-constructing order post-demobilization. However, we observe that both the organization of the community and the capacity and ideology of armed groups could also be limiting factors to the community's reproduction of order post-demobilization. From a peacebuilding perspective, this means that there can be pressure from below in favor of remobilization, as a predictable insurgent order may be preferable to uncertainty.

Original language	English
Number of pages	25
Journal	Latin American Politics and Society
Early online date	7 Jan 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2024.58
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 7 Jan 2025

Keywords

Relational security
Colombia
rebel governance
post-accord
security demands

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