President Santos during a UN Security Council field mission to Clombia, co-led by governments from Uruguay and the United Kingdom. Photo by: UK Mission to the UN/Lorey Campese
The Final Agreement to End the Armed Conflict and Build a Stable and Lasting Peace, signed on 24th November 2016, was the product of over four years’ intense negotiations. In the run-up to the public referendum, the month before, both parties had conceded that the negotiated settlement was imperfect, yet they reassured the public that it was the best one possible. It owed this undoubted success as much to the negotiating framework as it did to the endurance shown during the negotiations themselves.
“How a negotiation is designed deserves as much of the parties’ time and attention as what they are negotiating.” – Institute for Integrated Transitions
