THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE RURAL AGREEMENT IN THE COLOMBIAN PEACE ACCORD
CAMILO PARDO-HERRERA
Conflicts over the distribution of land have been a constant in the republican history of Colombia and consensus exists around the idea that inequality in access to the resource is at the core of the pintense civil war the country has gone through. As part of the peace agreement reached with the FARC, the Colombian Government has embarked on an Integral Rural Reform (IRR) strategy with the potential to address historical agrarian issues that have hindered the pace of development and generated protracted conflict. However, its results are expected to alter the historical status quo and consequently affect the interests of some actors. The paper describes the political economy of the IRR agreement by identifying the actors and the issues from which either support for, or resistance to, the initiative is likely to materialize as well as the effects that this can have for a peaceful and stable transition process.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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