Summary: On August 24, 2016 the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, commonly referred to as the FARC, signed a peace deal after 52 years of internal conflict. This peace deal marks a potential end to the over half century of violence that has killed over 220,000 Colombians and displaced more than six million. Dr. Jennifer Schirmer, a current fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government spent fourteen years working on peace-building and preparatory dialogue training in Colombia.
