• Paz para Nerds Agosto (2018) 

      IOM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)RPR, 2018-08-31)
      Esta octava edición de Paz para Nerds en 2018 da continuidad a una serie de entregas mensuales en donde podrán consultar la información académica más reciente en torno a los Acuerdos de Paz, procesos de DDR y temas afines.
    • RPR Peace Mail_April 11-17 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-04-17)
      “Marco Calarcá” (an alias), a FARC-EP representative in the MM&V announced that the guerrilla group has not ruled out the possibility of staying in the transitional zones after they have laid down their arms. The UN, ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_April 18-24 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-04-24)
      The Colombian Army discovered a sizeable weapons cache in the department of Putumayo, which is estimated to be one of 900 belonging to the FARC-EP throughout the country. Luis Alberto Ortiz Cabezas has the dubious distinction ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_August 1-7 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-08-07)
      On August 6th, a team of representatives from the United Nations, Colombian National Police, and the FARC-EP were ambushed. On August 3rd, the Selection Committee for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace announced that 2,328 ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_August 2-8 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2016-08-08)
      GOC and FARC-EP release protocols for disarmament and transitional zones; ELN rejects “essence” of peace negotiations between the FARC and the GOC; Most recent poll suggests that Colombian public will reject peace deal ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_February 21-27 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-02-27)
      ELN Claims Responsibility for Recent Bomb Attacks Putting at Risk Peace Talks. FARC on Schedule to Lay Down Arms March 1. Farmers and Indigenous Warn of the Presence of Paramilitaries Occupying Areas Formally Controlled ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_February 28-March 6 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-03-06)
      Delays in constructing the transitional zones. On March 1st, the United Nations began registering FARC-EP weapons in all 26 of the transitional zones. Leading up to the first round of minors exiting the FARC-EP transitional ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_January 10 to January 16 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia), 2017-01-16)
      On Tuesday, January 10th, a clash reportedly occurred between the Teófilo Foreo column of the FARC-EP and dissident members from the 14th Front of the same guerrilla in the hamlets of La Novia Celestial and Tailandia, ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_July 25-31 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-07-31)
      On Monday, July 31st, the process of arms extraction from the transitional zones began along with the collection of the weapons caches. On Tuesday, July 25th, the Senate approved the second of four debates on the current ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_June 13-19 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-06-19)
      By Saturday, June 17th, the U.N. announced they had advanced to controlling 60% of FARC-EP arms. By June 15th, 4,011 former FARC-EP and militia members had been accredited in the process of laying down their arms. One June ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_June 20-26 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-06-26)
      On Friday, June 23rd, the guerrilla had handed over 100% of their registered arms. President Juan Manuel Santos has written a formal request to the U.N. to launch a verification mission for the political, economic, and ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_June 27-July 3 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-07-03)
      On Tuesday June 27, the FARC officially ended its existence as an illegal armed group with the completion of the disarmament process. Next steps after the completion of the disarmament phase with the FARC include the ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_June 6-12 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-06-12)
      Wednesday, June 7th marked the completion of the first phase of the FARC-EP process for laying down their arms: 30% of all registered arms have now been handed over to the United Nations. As of Monday, June 12th, 305 ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_March 14-20 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-03-20)
      President Juan Manuel Santos announced Friday, March 17th, that the FARC-EP arms inventory comprises 14,000 arms, roughly 11,000 of which are rifles. Incarcerated members of the public forces who have served at least five ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_March 28-April 3 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-04-03)
      During the last week of March, the United Nations Mission in Colombia reported that the FARC-EP laid down 350-400 arms. In a vote of 97-60, Congress approved the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP). Sixteen more minors ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_May 16-22 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia), 2017-05-22)
      In terms of the process of laying down arms, 1,000 of the total personal arms of the FARC-EP registered with the United Nations are now housed in controlled U.N. containers. Constitutional Court overturns two key elements ...
    • RPR Peace Mail_May 2-8 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2017-05-08)
      UN Security Council visits rural Colombian community for first-hand view of peace process. FARC expected to lay down individually held arms by May 31 for UN collection, but not all arms. FARC to meet with ELN in Cuba.
    • RPR Peace Mail_September 27 to October 3 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento (RPR), 2016-10-03)
      Colombia Votes NO in October 2nd Plebiscite. Disarmament process freezes, new challenges emerge after rejection of the peace accords. Signs of life in ELN peace negotiations follow on October 2nd upset.
    • RPR Spotlight_Colombia Reincorporation Policy_ Part I_September 2018 

      OIM (Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM-Misión Colombia)RPR - Reintegración y Prevención del Reclutamiento, 2018-09-30)
      In response to the issuing of CONPES 3931 in July 2018, in which the Government of Colombia (GOC) outlines its new reintegration/reincorporation policy, we begin this 2-part Spotlight with a detailed look at the international ...