Abstract
Why the enthusiasm for peace faded? What are the perspectives for peace in Colombia? How peace came to be understood as the opposite to security? In this paper I want to make sense of the first two questions, leaving for another time the third one. But I would like to say, that peace and security are not opposites, for peace without security is unstable, and security without peace is authoritarian and undemocratic. In the first part of this paper I wish to show a brief history of past peace processes in Colombia in order to highlight the elements that have led to success or failure in the past. In the second part I focus on Andres Pastrana ́s peace process to show how it set the bases for the discredit peace processes currently have and then I analyze how peace became a dirty word in Colombia ́s political conversation and the possibilities of recovering peace as part of public discussion.
Highlights
On January 7th 1999, the President Andres Pastrana traveled to the region of El Caguán –in the southern part of the country- for the ceremony that launched the peace process with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia FARC
This trip was the result of a process of negotiation between FARC and the government and it was supposed to symbolize the moment wherein Colombia would walk her first steps to peace
Why the enthusiasm for peace faded? What are the perspectives for peace in Colombia? How peace came to be understood as the opposite to security? In this paper I want to make sense of the first two questions, leaving for another time the third one
Summary
Colombias political conversation and the possibilities of recovering peace as part of public discussion. ¿Cuáles son las perspectivas para la paz en Colombia? En este texto intento darle respuesta a las dos primeras preguntas, dejando para otra investigación la respuesta a la tercera. En la primera parte de este texto deseo hacer una breve historia de los anteriores procesos de paz en Colombia con el fin de resaltar los elementos que han conducido al éxito o al fracaso. En la segunda parte me ocupo de analizar el proceso del gobierno de Andrés Pastrana para mostrar cómo sentó las bases para el descrédito que actualmente tienen las negociaciones de paz y luego me ocupo de analizar cómo la paz se convirtió en anatema en la retórica política colombiana y las posibilidades de recuperar la idea de la paz para la discusión pública
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