Building Peace for the Pluriverse: Decolonizing Peace Activism and Ancestral Epistemologies in Colombia

Building Peace for the Pluriverse explores how Indigenous, Afrocolombian, Black, Palenquero, Raizal, and Rrom activists in Colombia reshape state-led peacebuilding by challenging coloniality in peacebuilding and asserting ancestral epistemologies and worldings.

The book traces activists’ efforts in the wake of the 2016 peace agreement between FARC-EP and the Colombian government and the ethnic chapter included in it to build a peace that protects the pluriverse, grounded in ancestral ontol...