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Negotiated Settlement to Armed Conflict: Lessons from the Colombian Peace Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Marc W. Chernick
Marc W. Chernick*
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Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies, Columbia University
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Colombian Politics, by 1982, were characterized by stagnation, increased levels of violence, and diminished regime legitimacy. In the face of an active, though limited, guerrilla insurgency as well as nascent labor unrest and popular protest, the successive governments of the National Front had come to depend on the coercive powers of the state to preserve public order and political stability. Colombia's peace process, initiated during the government of Conservative President Belisario Betancur (1982- 1986), was a recognition of the limits, indeed the failure, of the military solution to the maintenance of public order.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , Winter 1988 , pp. 53 - 88
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Copyright © University of Miami 1988

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