After Peace: Why violence still trips Colombia after the historic 2016 peace deal
Felipe Oyuela, MSc Sociology On October 30th, 2025, one of the LSE's most esteemed alumni, Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia, spoke at an event entitled “Sustainability, Peace, and Development”. Therein, the chair, Larry Kramer, proclaimed to a room full of applause, that Juan Manuel Santos had effectively ended a decades-long civil war that had killed an estimated 220,000 people and displaced more than 6 million from their homes ①. The unfortunate truth, however, is that...