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Die diesjährige DVPW-Tagung Ende September sorgte für einige Unruhen in den Reihen der Vereinigung und darüber hinaus. Dabei geriet die eigentliche Tagung zum Thema „Vorsicht Sicherheit. Legitimationsprobleme der Ordnung von Sicherheit“ durch die Querelen auf der Mitgliederversammlung fast völlig aus dem Blick. Einen guten und umfassenden Tagungsbericht, um die inhaltliche Debatte nicht gänzlich in Vergessenheit geraten zu lassen, stellten die Kollegen des Theorieblogs zusammen (siehe hier ), live bloggten die Kollegen des Sicherheitsblogs (siehe hier)...

On October the 2nd the Colombian people rejected the peace agreement between the government and the FARC in a referendum with a very thin majority of 0.4%. With this unexpected rejection, the referendum was in some ways similar to the Brexit referendum, for the results of which David Cameron was as little prepared as Juan Manuel Santos for his rejection; there was obviously no Plan B. In the last weeks, the government undertook ten changes to the agreement, but it will not go through a referendum again. Santos, as he said, has learned his lesson from the rejection and will seek to have the amended peace agreement approved in Congress. This will likely lead to the implementation of the peace agreement and the furtherance of its goals, such as a DDR process, land reforms, a transitional justice process and reparations for victims, just to mention a few. But this progress in peace will be seen as being at odds with popular opinion. Many of the “no” voters are still not satisfied with the adjustments made by the government and the FARC, and neither are the sectors of the opposition mainly responsible for the rejection. Nevertheless, the government and the FARC are progressing with the implementation, and peace talks with the second-largest – and now the last standing – guerrilla group, the ELN, are scheduled to start in 2017. The prospects for 2018 and onwards, when the presidency election will be held, are more questionable.

In Kolumbien schreiten die Friedensverhandlungen voran und mit jedem erfolgreich abgeschlossenen Verhandlungsschritt und mit jedem Versprechen von Reformen sinkt die Anzahl der Skeptiker gegenüber dem Prozess...