Personal Encounters with the FARC in their Disarmament & Reincorporation Zones

Gwen Burnyeat is a PhD candidate and Wolfson scholar in the Department of Anthropology at UCL. She is author of the book ‘Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia’ (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and producer of the ethnographic documentary ‘Chocolate of Peace’ (2016).

Jaskiran Kaur Chohan is a PhD candidate at the Institute of the Americas, UCL. Her research focuses on agrarian development in Colombia, with a specific focus on the Zonas de Reserva Campesina model.

Paul Angelo is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of the Americas, UCL, where he is researching security sector reform in Colombia and México. His previous experience includes employment at the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of State, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr Grace Livingstone is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. She is author of Inside Colombia: Drugs, Democracy and War (LAB/Rutgers University Press, 2003); America’s Backyard (Zed Books, 2009), and Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Dr. Andrei Gomez-Suarez is Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Institute of the Americas, UCL. He is author of Genocide, Geopolitics and Transnational Networks (Routledge, 2015) and El Triunfo del No (Icono, 2016). He co-founded Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD) in 2012.