Manuela Nillson, director of the Peace and Development Programme at Linnaeus University in Sweden, will explore legacies of Colombia's long conflict and contemporary challenges to the peace agreement signed in 2016. 

In fall 2016, the Colombian government signed a peace agreement with the country's largest guerrilla group and received the Nobel Peace Prize for ending over six decades of armed conflict.

However, only two years later, sustainable peace in Colombia seems far away. The content of the agreement is opposed by influential political groups, including the country’s new president; the disarmament and reintegration of the FARC guerrilla has had major difficulties; ongoing negotiations with the second largest guerrilla group have been cancelled again; land reform has not taken off; new dissident guerrilla groups have emerged and have joined forces with old ones as well as new criminal groups; the country's cocaine production is still flourishing and transitional justice in question.

So what is the future for peace in Colombia? And what can we learn from this example of attempting to build peace in environments with high levels of violence?

This public lecture is part of the StudiOC Forms of Justice learning community.