Acronyms ACCU United Self-Defence Forces of Córdoba and Urabá AD M-19 Democratic Alliance M-19 ADO Workers’ Self-Defence Group ANAPO Popular National Alliance ASI Indigenous Social Alliance AUC United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia CCN National Conciliation Commission CGSB Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordination Body CINEP Centre for Research and Popular Education CRS Socialist Renewal Current DMZ Demilitarized Zone ECOPETROL Colombian Petrol Company ELN National Liberation Army EPL People’s Liberation Army EU European Union FARC (also‘FARC-EP’) Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FIP Ideas for Peace Foundation ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross IHL International Humanitarian Law M-19 19th April Movement MAS Death to Kidnappers PDPMM Magdalena Medio Peace and Development Programme PNR National Rehabilitation Plan PRT Workers’ Revolutionary Party REDEPAZ Network of Initiatives for Peace and Against War UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNFP United Nations Population Fund UP Patriotic Union
Glossary Barrio: an urban neighbourhood Campesino: 'peasant' or 'rural worker' Clientelism: a political practice based on the dispensation of favours by leaders in exchange for support Colono: 'colonizer'; usually refers to campesinos who have settled in frontier territory in search of land and a livelihood La Violencia: a period of profound violence, uprisings and counter-revolutionary repression, occurring principally from 1948 to 1953 (although continuing until at least 1957) in which an estimated 200,000 people died National Front: an exclusive power-sharing arrangement between the Liberal and Conservative parties that lasted from 1958 to 1978, which meant they alternated the Presidency (until 1974) and divided other legislative and executive positions equally between them Political Favourability: one-off benefits negotiated with armed groups (originally the M-19) to assist their transition to legal political activity, by enabling electoral advantage or otherwise guaranteeing their participation in legislative bodies
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