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Engaging Colombia's students may be key to long-term peace

  • Written by Nadia Rubaii, Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Associate Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageA FARC member waves a white peace flag to commemorate the completion of their disarmament.AP Photo/Fernando Vergara

The end of violence does not always constitute peace.

In June, Colombian officials announced that members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia had officially disarmed and become civilians after turning over the last of their...

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