Total Peace

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Total Peace is a concept created by the government of Gustavo Petro to turn the search for peace into a state policy. This includes negotiating peace with illegal armed groups, but also putting the community at the center of these negotiations, since they are the ones in the middle of the confrontation.^[1][2][3]

The law passed in October allows Petro to initiate a peace process with all armed actors and put an end to a decades-long armed conflict that has left almost half a million dead and millions displaced.^[4]

The law grants powers to negotiate with armed groups such as the ELN, and the FARC dissidents that rejected a 2016 agreement and returned to the armed struggle and another that never signed the pact. It can also initiate peace negotiations with criminal gangs such as the Clan del Golfo, whose leaders and members may receive benefits such as reduced sentences and non-extradition in exchange for reporting routes to export cocaine and handing over part of the illegally obtained fortunes.^[5][6]

Total Peace also contemplates the creation of a peace fund to guarantee social investment in remote areas hit by violence and the presence of illegal armed groups.^[7]