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

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. From a peacebuilding perspective, this means that there can be pressure from below in favour of remobilization, as a predictable insurgent order may be preferable to uncertainty.

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Written by Dr José Gutierrez Danton, Centre for Applied Human Rights, and Dr Clara Voyvodic Casabo, School of Social Sciences, University of Bradford.