Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory

An on-the-ground description of Colombia's peace process as lived by the rural populations most affected by it.

The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living there rely on small-scale farming, even as a newly constructed hydroelectric dam threatens traditional livelihoods. Yet after decades where Briceño suffered from a bloody conflict, the village has more recently become central to the nation's h...