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Rural development and peacebuilding in Colombia have been highly prioritized by higher education institutions since the signing of the Peace Agreement between the National Government and the FARC-EP. This has resulted in the need to further analyze rural strategies that contribute towards a better life for the population of territories where armed conflict is coming to an end, whilst understanding the pressing uncertainty that this process implies; on the one hand, for the urgency of generating rapid and concrete responses to social justice and equity, and on the other, because fulfilling the agreement guarantees scenarios of non-repetition of the war in the country.
These were some of the reflections that motivated the research project “Rural development alternatives for peacebuilding: educational strategies to strengthen the ability of producers and young people that contribute to the coffee production chain in the municipalities of Leiva, Policarpa and Los Andes of the department of Nariño, with international impact in the province of Carchi-Ecuador”. This work is presented as an investigative result that contains the analysis of theoretical and territorial dynamic contributions regarding the construction of peace, education and the economy for rural development.
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After the demobilization of some of the guerrilla groups, such as the M-19, and except for some redoubts of former insurrection movements, only the two strongest guerrilla groups have remained active in recent years: the FARC and the ELN.
The FARC-EP, which was born in 1964 as an insurgent group of campesino origin with the purpose of accessing power through the revolution, intensified its methods and means of combat over the years, until it became a large military structure with an increasingly offensive focus. There were two firm attempts to achieve a negotiated peace between the FARC and the State before reaching the final agreement. The first, in 1984, with the signing of a ceasefire with President Belisario Betancur. The second, known as the Caguán peace process, began in 1998 with President Andrés Pastrana, and consisted of a failed negotiation without a ceasefire.
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