On his first day in office, President Gustavo Petro invited all illegal armed groups in Colombia to work towards “total peace”. In November 2022, Congress approved Law 2272 of 2022 granting him the legal framework to open negotiations. In this context, the self-defined Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC, also known as Clan del Golfo, a […]
Andrei Gómez-Suárez
Andrei Gómez-Suárez is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Religion, Reconciliation and Peace at the University of Winchester. He is the co-founder of Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD, Embrace Dialogue), He is also an Associated Researcher in the Department of Latin American, Hispanic and Portuguese studies at Bristol University and senior consultant of Positive Negatives. He is the author of Genocide, Geopolitics, and Transnational Networks (Routledge, 2015), El Triunfo del No (Ícono, 2016), producer of La Confianza, and writer and producer of Jessica: Coca, Stigmatization, Violence and Development in Colombia and Colombia’s Broken Peace (Positive Negatives, 2020, 2022).
