Brain Trust for the Colombian Transition

IFIT’s Brain Trust for the Colombian Transition brings together 30+ leading national and local experts to strengthen peace implementation. Created in 2016 and expanded in 2020, and using a purpose-built “horizontal peacebuilding” method, the Brain Trust provides unparalleled interdisciplinary analysis and advice on peace and reconciliation issues in Colombia.

Colombia

IFIT’s Role in Colombia

IFIT played a key role directly inside the Havana peace talks and has played an influential national peacebuilding role ever since. IFIT has convened dozens of high-level events, built bridges across polarised sectors and helped translate Colombia’s peace architecture into evidence-based solutions. Its global network of 400+ experts brings comparative insights to national and local challenges.

A Global Peace Lab

Colombia has become one of the world’s frontier laboratories for peacebuilding, negotiation and transition. The 2016 peace deal with the FARC and its ambitious reforms have made the country a global reference on disarmament, transitional justice, and more.

Why Colombia Matters Today

Colombia is a country with scores of valuable lessons from its own past and present. It offers a powerful setting to responsibly test innovative new approaches to depolarisation, narrative change, and peacebuilding.

A Unique Value Proposition

IFIT was the first organisation to systematically engage political actors opposed to the 2016 peace accord. Today, it is trusted across government levels and sectors to convene diverse voices, reduce polarization, and generate realistic, locally grounded policy proposals for peace, and security.

Colombia’s Global Relevance

Colombia is a reference country on peace, mediation, conflict resolution and reconciliation issues in Latin America and worldwide. Through a Regional Program for Latin America and the Caribbean as well as through Brain Trusts in other countries across the globe, IFIT fosters mutual learning, civic diplomacy, and informed approaches to preventing and resolving violent conflicts and crises.

Selected commentary

Public Commentary / 13 April 2021

Colombia’s Shaky Peace Deal Needs Biden’s Support

By Andrés García Trujillo

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