From War to Post-Agreement: Political and Institutional Legacies of Rebel Governance in Post-FARC Territories

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Published: Oct 11, 2023
Issue: Vol. 35 No. 2 (2023): SettingsTowards a gender-sensitive foreign policy in Latin America
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Keywords: Rebel governance , wartime legacies , post-agreement , FARC-EP , San Andrés de Tello (Huila) , Colombia Gobernanza rebelde , legados de la guerra , posacuerdo , FARC-EP , San Andrés de Tello (Huila) , Colombia Governança rebelde , legados de guerra , pós-acordo , FARC-EP , San Andrés de Tello (Huila) , Colômbia

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  David Alonso Silva Ojeda Universidad ICESI
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This article explores the political and institutional legacies of rebel governance in a context in which, after the demobilization of the farc-ep, there was no reconfiguration of the dynamics of presence and violence developed by legal and illegal armed actors. I argue that from the rebel governance built by the insurgency and the local community boards (jals) there emerged social processes that held, even after the signing of the Peace Agreement, and influenced the way in which local orders were  reconstructed
following the farc’s exit from the area. The paper presents a case study of San Andrés de Tello—a rural
locality in the north of Huila, Colombia, with historic farc presence--based on ethnographic fieldwork
that privileged contact with key informants and concrete observations. This work contributes to the
understanding of the legacies of rebel governance and how it is possible to use them to generate participatory
processes of state formation that incorporate communal institutions as protagonists in the
configuration of community governance in regions with a differentiated presence of the State.

How to Cite
Silva Ojeda, D. A. (2023). From War to Post-Agreement: Political and Institutional Legacies of Rebel Governance in Post-FARC Territories. Desafíos, 35(2). https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.13134
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