Desde la década de 1990, la prevención de conflictos y la construcción de la paz se han convertido en objetivos relevantes de la acción exterior de la UE. Esta ha ido desarrollando un marco institucional compuesto por un entramado de organismos, políticas e instrumentos financieros, que le permite actuar en diferentes ámbitos y en todas las fases de un conflicto. Sin embargo, es un marco caracterizado por la fragmentación y la descoordinación. Por ello, la UE ha formulado los enfoques integral e integrado, y realizado varias reformasinstitucionales para dotar de mayor coherencia a sus políticas. Este objetivo se ha conseguido solo en parte, más en el ámbito técnico que en el político. Así, las políticas europeas están aún lejos de aprovechar todo su potencial, sobre todo en materia de prevención de las causas de los conflictos a largo plazo.

This first chapter provides an introduction to the book as a whole. In the first place, it offers a general view of the historical context and the contents of the Havana Peace Agreement signed in 2016 between the Colombian government and the guerrilla organization FARC-EP. It also outlines the areas and instruments in which the EU’s support for this Agreement is materialized, as well as the motivations behind this support. These include the EU’s wish to project itself as a normative power, as well as interests of an economic and political type, and the search for regional stability. Additionally, the chapter defines the starting points and the transversal axes around which the book as a whole is articulated, referring to the three fields in which we consider that the EU’s activities in Colombia have been making several innovative contributions enabling it to move beyond conventional liberal peace: the strengthening of civil society, the promotion and defense of human rights, and the adoption of a territorial approach. Equally, the text provides a brief theoretical framework for the book, pointing to some theoretical debates in Peace Studies that could be enriched by the European experience in Colombia. Keywords European Union Peace agreement Colombia Human rights Civil society Territorial approach

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This chapter takes up some of the transversal ideas addressed throughout the book. In the first place, it formulates some conclusions on the support given by the EU to the peace process in Colombia over two decades and, in particular, to the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement. It considers that a hybrid model of peacebuilding has been shaped, with objectives and principles of liberal peace, but with some innovative elements that go beyond the latter, above all in three fields: the commitment to strengthening civil society, the defence of human rights and the adoption of a territorial approach. In the second place, we extract some lessons from the accumulated European experiences and activities in the country that could enrich the EU’s normative framework and repertoire of peacebuilding instruments in the world. Finally, we reflect on the growing space and the opportunities that Gustavo Petro’s election as president in August 2022 has opened for the EU to continue acting as a firm supporter of the Peace Agreement. The chapter is based on a documentary analysis and interviews conducted with several actors.

The existing information mechanisms on food insecurity are not ‘conflict sensitive’, that is, they do not sufficiently incorporate the causal relation between conflict and hunger. This generates a lack of detailed information in this respect, which hinders implementation of Security Council Resolution 2417. It is therefore necessary to advance towards an early warning system that considers the impact of the use of hunger as a weapon of war on the different dimensions of food security, and is capable of collecting empirical evidence at the local level in a regular and agile form. To that end, in this article we reflect on the existing difficulties in collecting and analysing such information, and propose theoretical and operational inputs for constructing conflict-sensitive early warning systems in contexts of acute food insecurity.