Feel the Grass Grow - 9781503634640

Feel the Grass GrowEcologies of Slow Peace in Colombia\nAuthor(s): Angela Jill Lederach\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503634640, 978-1503634640\nSynopsis\nOn November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a revised peace accord that marked a political end to over a half-century of war. Feel the Grass Grow traces the far less visible aspects of moving from war to peace: the decades of campesino struggle to defend life, land, and territory prior to the national accord, as well as campesino social leaders' engagement with the challenges of the state's post-accord reconstruction efforts. In the words of the campesino organizers, \""peace is not signed, peace is built.\""\n\n Drawing on nearly a decade of extensive ethnographic and participatory research, Angela Jill Lederach advances a theory of \""slow peace.\"" Slowing down does not negate the urgenc.