Colombia’s prospects for sustainable peace and the successful implementation of the peace agreement between the government and the FARC(Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)have been stained by the number of assassinated civic and social leaders(Kroc Institute 2019).
Around 384civicand social leaders were murdered between 2016 and July 4, 2018(Böll Stiftung -Indepaz 2018), i.e.towards the end of peace negotiations and the implementation of the peace agreement. While data for all cases in 2018 is still unavailable, it is widely believed that there was a dramatic increasethroughout 2018 in the midst of national legislative and presidential elections.1 The assassination of civic and social leaders continues in 2019and could potentially worsen as local elections near.