Face of Peace

Gwen Burnyeat is a junior research fellow in anthropology at Merton College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Chocolate, Politics, and Peace-Building.

• Note on TranslationList of AbbreviationsPrologueIntroductionPart I Anthrohistory of the Santos Government1 Peace, Politics, and Public Opinion under Juan Manuel Santos, 2010–20182 The Rationality Drive: The Development of Government Peace Pedagogy, 2012–20183 The Anti-politics of Cultural LiberalismPart II Ethnography of Peace Pedagogy in Action4 Interface: The Enactment of Legitimacy by Explanation5 State-Consciousness: Three Layers of Responsibility and Trust6 Rendering Political: The Affective Labor of Liaising with the FARC et al.7 The Entangled Face: International Implication in Government ResponsibilityConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

“This remarkable book combines sensitive ethnography, brave and imaginative analysis, and considerable passion to tell a story for our times about the failures of liberal peace-making in Colombia and the seemingly unbridgeable divide between the state and ordinary people. Its brilliant analysis of liberalism’s limitations provides sparks of hope for a more humane political future.”