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Total Peace is the peace policy designed and currently (2022-2026) being implemented by the government of Gustavo Petro. This law modifies the Public Law order and allows for the government to negotiate with armed and criminal groups using different stretegies and legal tools.[1]
Organized Armed Groups - groups that under the leadership of a responsible command, exercise enough control over part of a territory to carry out sustained and coordinated military operations- are entitled to enter a formal peace dialogue or political negotiation with the aim of signing a Peace Agreement. Criminal groups, or high-impact criminal structures, meaning those violent groups involved in illicit economies and that exercise criminal violence over a population- can enter a 'socio-juridical conversation' to agree their surrender/submission to justice process. This means that the scope of the aspects to be discussed during the process is more limited than those discussed with Organized Armed Groups. [2]
According to the Total Peace law, groups integrated by members of the former FARC cannot be considered Organised Armed groups, yet political negotiations have been established with FARC dissident groups.
The High-Level Instance created by the law, coordinated by the Minister of Defence and integrated by the Director of National Intelligence and Colombia's High Commissioner for Peace, was supposed to categorise illegal groups into criminal organisations or Organised Armed groups and thus determine the route for engagement but such Instance has failed to meet and categorisations have been de facto made by the High Commissioner for Peace, including political negotiations with factions of the FARC dissident groups.
- ^ "Ley 2272 de 2022 - Gestor Normativo - Función Pública". Archived from the original on 2024-10-03. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
- ^ "Ley 2272 de 2022 - Gestor Normativo - Función Pública". Archived from the original on 2024-09-25. Retrieved 2024-09-25.