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The battle for peace : the long road to ending a war with the world's oldest guerrilla army /

"In 2016, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people.&quo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Santos, Juan Manuel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Prologue to the Spanish-Language Edition
  • Letter to the Reader
  • Introduction. Two Centuries between War and Peace
  • Part One. Conspiring for Peace (1991-1998)
  • 1. A First Approach to Peace
  • 2. Destination Colombia
  • 3. The Story of My Conspiracy
  • Part Two. Creating Conditions for Peace (1998-2009)
  • 4. The Start of the Caguán Process
  • 5. Plan Colombia
  • 6. The End of the Caguán Process
  • 7. First a Hawk, Then a Dove
  • 8. A Team for War and Peace
  • 9. Checkmate for Terror
  • Lesson 1. To Achieve a Favorable Correlation of Strength
  • Part Three. The Secret Phase (2010-2012)
  • 10. "Betrayal
  • 11. Hugo Chávez: Agreeing to Disagree
  • 12. Rafael Correa: From Hostility to Cooperation
  • Lesson 2. Make Allies out of Your Enemies
  • 13. First Approach to the Farc
  • 14. The Fall of Number Two
  • Photo Gallery
  • 15. Admitting There Is an Armed Conflict
  • 16. The Death of Alfonso Cano
  • Lesson 3. Sometimes You Have to Negotiate in the Middle of the Conflict
  • 17. First Meeting in Havana
  • 18. The Importance of the Agenda
  • Lesson 4. It's the Peace, Stupid!
  • Part Four. The Table in Havana (2012-2016)
  • 19. Colombia Is Informed of the Process
  • 20. The Human Factor
  • 21. "Nothing Is Agreed until Everything Is Agreed
  • 22. International Advisers
  • 23. The Message of Francis
  • 24. The Backing of the United States
  • 25. The World Bets on Peace in Colombia
  • Lesson 5. The Importance of International Support
  • 26. "We Mustn't Give Up Halfway
  • 27. The Problem of Drugs
  • 28. The Peace Elections
  • 29. The Example of the Victims
  • 30. The Rights of the Victims
  • 31. A Model of Justice for the World
  • 32. The Point of No Return
  • Lesson 6. The Victims and Their Rights Should Be at the Center of the Solution.
  • 33. The End of Conflict
  • 34. "The Horrible Night Is Over
  • Part Five. Building Peace (2016-2018)
  • 35. The Plebiscite
  • 36. From Hell to Heaven in Five Days
  • 37. An Irrational Opposition
  • 38. The Path to a New Colombia
  • Epilogue. It Was Worthwhile
  • Appendix. Peace in Colombia: From the Impossible to the Possible: Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2016
  • Index
  • Back Cover.