The 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement and Colonial Continuities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4501568 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kacper Przyborowski (0009-0002-5963-4617, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 190-207 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x251337705 |
| OpenAlex | W4410888656 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
The 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement was expected to bring an end to more than fifty years of armed conflict and build a sustainable peace. However, the country continues to be rife with violence, discrimination, and exclusion. Although the Peace Agreement's state of implementation has been subject to academic debates, a critical discussion of the document has been missing. To address this gap, the article explores the document's diverse political and economic functions, and demonstrates that it acts as a "smokescreen" allowing for (re)production of colonial continuities, especially in relation to the political participation of Black communities. The analysis is informed by interviews with social leaders involved in peace negotiations and activists from the Colombian Pacific. The above offers a novel approach, indicating that peacebuilding is "not only" about peace and conflict, as it provides opportunities for engagement with broader questions regarding the nature of the political community. Se esperaba que el Acuerdo de Paz colombiano de 2016 pusiera fin a más de cincuenta años de conflicto armado y construyera una paz sostenible. Sin embargo, el país continúa plagado de violencia, discriminación y exclusión. Aunque el estado de implementación del Acuerdo de Paz ha sido objeto de debates académicos, ha faltado una discusión crítica del documento. Para abordar esta brecha, el artículo explora las diversas funciones políticas y económicas del acuerdo, y demuestra que actúa como una "cortina de humo" que permite la (re)producción de continuidades coloniales, especialmente con respecto a la participación política de las comunidades negras. El análisis se basa en entrevistas con líderes sociales involucrados en las negociaciones de paz y activistas del Pacífico colombiano. A través de esto, se ofrece un enfoque novedoso, que indica que la construcción de paz "no se trata sólo" de paz y conflicto, sino que brinda oportunidades para abordar cuestiones más amplias sobre la naturaleza de la comunidad política
Agreement · Colonialism · Ethnology · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · History and Politics in Latin America · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
Thinking-feeling with the Earth
“Territorial Peace”
The end of gunpoint conservation
Colonial Unknowing and Relations of Study
Peace in Colombia
The Colombian peace negotiations and the invisibility of the ‘no’ vote in the 2016 referendum
Why peacebuilding is condemned to fail if it ignores ethnicization. The case of Colombia
The liberal peace fallacy
Posthuman rights struggles and environmentalisms from below in the political ontologies of Ecuador and Colombia
Militarized peace
What's to come is more complicated
The ethnic chapter of the 2016 Colombian peace agreement and the afro-descendants’ right to prior consultation
Extracting justice? Colombia’s commitment to mining and energy as a foundation for peace
Completing the Circle
Peacekeeping and critical theory
Liminal Subjects
Peacebuilding as counterinsurgency in the occupied Palestinian territory
A land full of opportunities? Agrarian frontiers, policy narratives and the political economy of peace in Colombia
Fests of Vests”
Producing nature and making the state
Una paz fallida? Dificultades de la construcción de paz en Colombia tras el acuerdo con las Farc-EP
Lo decimos con cariño? Articulating Blackness in Colombia
Between pacification and dialogue
What's wrong with a one-world world
Las voces étnicas en el Acuerdo de Paz de Colombia
Beyond the Third World
White innocence in the Black Mediterranean
Was Farc militarily defeated
Building an inclusive peace is an uneven socio-spatial process
The myth of liberal peace-building
Territorial peace and gold mining in Colombia
From Territorial Peace to Territorial Pacification
Translation as Erasure
Neoliberalism, the Global Elite, and the Guatemalan Transition
Reducing deforestation in Colombia while building peace and pursuing business as usual extractivism
Disenchanted with the state
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
The "Lettered City" and the Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges in Latin America
Esa paz blanca, esa paz de muerte
Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes
Losing land in times of peace
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |