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The Cure to Political Violence

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This is one of the most iconic images of the recent peace process between the leftist guerrilla group of Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the Colombian government of Juan Manuel Santos. It captures, although incipiently, the hegemonic temporality of conventional notions of war and peace; that is, the assumption that they are temporally and spatially discrete states. The image also evokes the promises (so far failed or unfulfilled) of the postwar period.

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