Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 03/2010

Time for a Peace Paradigm in Colombia

Virginia M. Bouvier

January 2010

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

With congressional and presidential elections respectively scheduled for March 14 and May 30, 2010, electoral politics in Colombia will shape the prospects for peace in the coming months. Peace does not appear on the government's public policy agenda and it has yet to materialize as a campaign issue.