Members of the lower house, multi-party Peace Committee address drugs, justice and security at USIP forum.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 / By: Fred Strasser
The peace accord that halted a half-century of violent conflict in Colombia has reached a critical juncture. With the population almost evenly split over the terms of the 2016 agreement and a new government led by the party that opposed it, analysts and political figures see sustainable peace as increasingly endangered. Yet virtually no one in Colombia seeks to risk rekindling a war that killed at least 220,000 people and displaced more than 7 million. Rather, the danger arises from divergent priorities and viewpoints on how to proceed with the deal. Working to resolve those differences is the multi-party Peace Committee in Colombia’s House of Representatives—an effort displayed last week at the U.S. Institute of Peace in a discussion among six of the panel’s members.
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