Deep Dive Podcast - Colombia & Total Peace: Part 1 - “The ELN - The Easy Win”

Get an early look at some of the findings from the SOC ACE supported research project, ‘Negotiating with criminal groups: Colombia’s Total Peace Policy, led by GI-TOC’s Felipe Botero and Mariana Botero, Juanita Duran of Laboratorio de Justicia y Política Criminal, and Kyle Johnson of Fundación Conflict Responses, CORE, by listening to the new Deep Dive Podcast - Colombia & Total Peace: Part 1 - “The ELN - The Easy Win”.

‘Total Peace’, an ambitious and wide ranging flagship policy of President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, looks to negotiate with all criminal groups, whether politically minded or organised crime to bring an end to the long running conflicts and violence across Colombia. The episode provides an overview of the policy itself including its aims, scope and mechanisms as well as the actors involved, and starts to explore how the policy is progressing, its implications for communities and whether its working.

Keep an eye out for the second episode in the series as well as publications from the research project in 2025.