Abstract
AbstractThis first chapter provides an introduction to the book as a whole. In the first place, it offers a general view of the historical context and the contents of the Havana Peace Agreement signed in 2016 between the Colombian government and the guerrilla organization FARC-EP. It also outlines the areas and instruments in which the EU’s support for this Agreement is materialized, as well as the motivations behind this support. These include the EU’s wish to project itself as a normative power, as well as interests of an economic and political type, and the search for regional stability. Additionally, the chapter defines the starting points and the transversal axes around which the book as a whole is articulated, referring to the three fields in which we consider that the EU’s activities in Colombia have been making several innovative contributions enabling it to move beyond conventional liberal peace: the strengthening of civil society, the promotion and defense of human rights, and the adoption of a territorial approach. Equally, the text provides a brief theoretical framework for the book, pointing to some theoretical debates in Peace Studies that could be enriched by the European experience in Colombia.
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Springer Nature Switzerland
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