peace process - Alto Comisionado para la Paz

what we have
achieved so far in
the colombian
peace process
A publication by
The Office of the High
Commissioner for Peace
WHAT WE HAVE
ACHIEVED SO
FAR DURING THE
HAVANA PEACE TALKS
Solution to
the problem
of illicit drugs
• Finding a solution to the illicit drug problem
in Colombia is an essential condition to
building a stable and lasting peace.
• This agreement seeks to give special
treatment to this issue, by promoting the
voluntary replacement of illicit crops, and an
agricultural transformation of the affected
areas.
• It will prioritise the legal use of drugs under
public health policies, and will intensify the
fight against drug trafficking.
Political
participation
Towards a new
Colombian countryside
A democratic opportunity
to build peace
• This agreement lays the foundation for the
transformation of rural Colombia, and will
create the conditions to ensure the health and
welfare for the rural population.
• It seeks to completely remove extreme poverty
from the rural population, and reduce rural
poverty by 50% within 10 years.
• It also aims to promote equality amongst all
Colombians, close ‘the gap’ between rural and
urban areas, improve the agricultural industry
and, in particular, enhance living and working
conditions for rural farmers, their families and
their communities.
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• This agreement seeks to strengthen the
participation of all Colombians in politics,
public affairs and the peace-building process.
• It seeks to strengthen democracy as a way of
handling conflicts peacefully and completely
remove any link between the taking up of arms
and politics.
• It also aims to facilitate a transition to
a Colombia which embraces a culture of
reconciliation, coexistence, and tolerance
and free of cultural-stereotyping and socialstigmatisation.
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End of the
Conflict
Implementation,
verification and
public vote
Confidence building
measures
This agreement seeks to achieve through
the five mechanisms and measures that
make up the Comprehensive System for
Truth, Justice, Reparations and NonRepetition – to realise the rights of
victims, ensure accountability for what
happened in the conflict, ensure the legal
certainty for those who have committed
crimes in the conflict, and help to facilitate
coexistence, reconciliation and guarantees
of non-repetition, as essential elements of
the transition to peace.
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Comprehensive
Rural Reform
Agreement
regarding the
Victims of the
Conflict
Currently being discussed at the peace
talks’ Negotiation Table in Havana, Cuba.
Currently being discussed at the peace
talks’ Negotiation Table in Havana, Cuba.
As part of the discussions, the delegations have also made
progress in agreeing up certain measures aimed at de-escalating
the armed conflict and re-building trust across the country.
For example, on 7 March 2015, an agreement was reached on
humanitarian demining programs, which has led to two pilot
projects being run in Antioquia and Meta. Likewise, on 17
October 2015, an agreement was reached to undertake certain
immediate steps to search for, locate, identify and undertake the
dignified recovery of the remains of persons deemed as missing
in the context of and due to the armed conflict. Furthermore, on
15 May 2016, an agreement was reached on a framework for the
complete removal of all children from the ranks of the FARC.
Towards a
new rural
Colombian
countryside
access and land use
1.
Comprehensive
A special ‘land fund’ to
provide land to those rural
people without land, or
without sufficient land, and a
large-scale land registration
program for those who have
land but not the formal
paperwork, such as the land
deeds
2.
Updating and modernising
the rural land registration
office, and ensuring that
actual land use is consistent
with its proper purpose
Rural Reform
Announced in Havana on 26 May 2013
3.
Protection of areas of
particular environmental
interest
4.
The creation of a special rural
land legal system, in order to
resolve conflicts over land
nationwide rural
development plans
These include large-scale projects
to provide public goods and
services, in the following areas:
Infrastructure and Land
Development:
5. Improvement of rural
roads, and enhancements
to irrigation, drainage,
electricity and internet
connectivity
Social welfare:
6. Improved access to housing
and drinking water
7. Improvements in education
8. Improvements in health
services
Stimulating
productivity:
9. Plans to promote familyrun businesses and social
cooperatives, and to
facilitate the marketing of
farmers’ products in order
to bring farmers closer to
their customers
10. Providing technical,
technological and research
assistance to rural people
11. Providing social security
guarantees for rural
workers
12. An innovative system
for food and nutrition,
in order to eradicate
starvation in rural
colombia
Development
programs with a
territory-based
approach
14. These consist of
implementing national
plans, as swiftly as
possible, in the regions
most affected by the
conflict, where the
poorest people reside, and
where there exist fewer
state institutions and
the presence of illegal
economies. These plans
will strive to include
active participation
from the various affected
communities.
13. Access to credit
PROPERTY OF JUAN
PROPERTY OF JUAN
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RURAL JUSTICE
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SEED BANK
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WATER
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Political
participation:
a new ‘democratic
opportunity’,
through the
participation of
new political
voices and projects
A democratic
opportunity to build peace
1. Facilitating the creation
of new political parties,
without jeopardising the
progress achieved in the
consolidation of parties
within the political system.
Announced in Havana on 6 November 2013
2. Strengthening the electoral
system’s transparency and
promoting participation
in elections.
3. The creation of Special
Transitory Peace Electoral
Districts in the regions
most affected by the
conflict. The inhabitants
of these regions will be
able to elect, during the
transition phase and only
on a temporary basis,
additional members to the
House of Representatives
in accordance with
certain special rules.
4. Guarantees for
political opposition:
A specific legislative
instrument for
safeguarding political
opposition movements
will be created, following
a robust discussion of its
contents by all political
parties and movements.
greater citizen
participation
5. Strengthening of guarantees
for social organisations
and movements, as well
as for the rights to social
protest and demonstration
6. Strengthening of citizen
participation in the
development of public
policies, especially on
regional and local levels
7. Strengthening of citizen
oversight of public
administration, through
the promotion of public
transparency committees
and watchdog organisations
throughout the country
8. Strengthening of
community-based,
regional and governmental
communications
measures, and the
creation of a National
Council for Reconciliation
and Coexistence
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house of representatives
removing the link
between politics
and weapons
9. The Agreement seeks to
ensure that nobody ever
again will use weapons to
promote political causes. It
will also ensure that those
who have laid down their
weapons to form political
movements, have all the
necessary guarantees so
that they won’t become
targets of violence
10.The Government will
establish a Comprehensive
Security System to protect
participation in politics,
within a framework for
guaranteeing rights and
freedoms. A similar system
of security guarantees will
be developed for leaders of
social organisations and
movements, and for human
rights advocates at risk
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Solution to
the problem
of illicit drugs
Announced in Havana on 16 May 2014
dealing with illicit
crops, from a ruraldevelopment approach
1.
2.
The creation of a new national
Program for Illicit Crop
Substitution and Alternative
Crop Development. This
Program seeks to work with local
communities and authorities
to solve, once and for all, the
problem of illicit crop growth.
The affected communities will
play an active role in designing,
implementing and monitoring the
success of the program.
fight against
organised crime and
drug trafficking
3.
This program will form one
chapter of the Agreement on
Comprehensive Rural Reform,
within the Final Agreement,
given that it naturally belongs
within the set of programs aimed
at enhancing the social inclusion
of the Colombian countryside,
through development projects.
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The creation of a new
comprehensive strategy
aiming at dismantling and
prosecuting drug trafficking
networks, particularly those
at a local level
4.
Strengthening efforts against
money laundering in all
sectors of the economy and
establishing strict controls on
the production of legal drugs
and the transport of chemicals
used in these processes.
5.
Establishing new measures
to enhance the fight against
corruption, particularly
those associated with drug
trafficking
6. drug use treated
as a public health
issue
The Agreement acknowledges
that illicit drug use is a matter
of public health which demands
priority treatment. State
institutions will work alongside
communities and families,
in order to develop measures
aimed at making prevention
universal, and facilitating
access to medical treatment for
drug-users.
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Agreement
regarding the
Victims of the
Conflict
Comprehensive System of Truth,
Justice, Reparation and
Non-Repetition
Made public in Havana on December 15, 2015
1. Truth, Coexistence
and Non Repetition
Commission
The Commission will be an
extrajudicial and temporary
body, alike those that have
been created in the past, in
the other transition processes,
in order to establish the facts
about patterns of violence
that have occurred
It is not a mechanism for
administering justice,
but rather will be created
to contribute to the
establishment of the truth
about what happened and to
recognise the rights of victims
Guarantees of
Non-Repetition
2. Unit for the
Search for
Persons deemed
as Missing
The Unit will be a special
high-level unit with
a mandate to direct,
coordinate and contribute
to the implementation of
humanitarian and extrajudicial measures for the
search for, and identification
of, missing persons who
are alive, and in the case
of deaths, if possible, the
location and dignified return
of their remains
3. Comprehensive
Reparation
Programs for
Peacebuilding
comprehensive reparation
program for victims being
implemented by the Colombian
government, and to ensure that
those who participated directly
or indirectly in the conflict and
caused harm, contribute to the
reparation of victims.
Jurisdiction
for Peace
The Special Jurisdiction for
Peace is the judicial component
of the Comprehensive System.
It seeks, above all, to realise
the rights of victims to justice,
fight against impunity,
comply with the state's duty
to investigate, prosecute and
punish criminal acts, and make
decisions that give complete
legal certainty to those
involved in the mechanisms of
the Comprehensive System.
a. Concrete contributions to
reparations
b. Acts of early recognition of
responsibility
c. Collective reparations for
the end of the conflict
d. Land restitution
e. Collective processes of
return of displaced persons
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4. Special
Psychosocial rehabilitation
The end of conflict represents
a unique opportunity to
strengthen the
In order to access the special
criminal justice processes
within the Special Jurisdiction
for Peace, persons must first
contribute to establishing
the truth about what
happened, as well as to the
reparation of their victims.
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