Colombia’s Peace Process: 5 Signs of Progress

December 4, 2023 by Kathleen Mary Willis

Colombia’s Peace Process: 5 Signs of Progress

John Simms and Mica Hong, Peace News, November 6, 2023

(https://peacenews.com/colombias-peace-process-5-signs-of-progress/)

Colombia has experienced decades of civil conflict between the government and various guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, and criminal organizations. A 2016 peace deal with the largest guerrilla group was a major success, although progress stalled for years.

Following the election of Gustavo Petro in the 2022 Presidential Election, recent developments have led to optimism that peace may be within reach, as the new administration prioritizes a strategy of “total peace” and dialogue with all armed groups. Peace News spoke with experts on the subject to learn more about the current state of the peace process.

Read our past coverage of Colombia here, and check out our recent story on the “total peace” initiative.

Experts interviewed: Andrei Gomez-Suarez, Ivan Briscoe, Gwen Burnyeat

Archangel Michael: Everything that has need to be eliminated, everything that has need to be relinquished, everything that has need to be healed in this cesspool that we call ‘chaos’ has need to come to the surface.
Otherwise – and this has happened many, many times in human history – what happens is there is a belief [that] there is a healing, an accommodation, a remedy, and then the human collective tends to think, ‘Okay, now it is cleaned up. Now it is healed. Now it is done.’
But the core – the core issues of the collective, and of course of the individuals – has not been addressed, and therefore it simply settles in and it festers.

(“Archangel Michael on Why All This Conflict is Occurring,” September 28, 2023, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=348361.)

Divine Mother: [I am speaking about] those in … positions where control and abuse of power have been rampant. That will not be the platform [from] which integration of the various galaxies [into the new, interdimensional region of space] takes place. That is not the Plan.
I know very clearly, sweet one, as do you, if it is not [in] my Plan, then it will not occur. (The Divine Mother in “Enter the Delegations – Part 2/3,” May 5, 2019, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/05/05/enter-the-delegations-part-2-3/.)

Beloved child, son of my heart, [Ascension, spiritual evolution] is only about love, about the many expressions, about the many forms.
And truly of anchoring and being nothing but the love, in intellect, in wisdom, in sharing, in adventure, in relationship.
It can only be [that way] when you continue to bring all adventures, all arguments, all explorations back to the love.
(The Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019; also at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/06/01/the-divine-mother-it-is-all-a-journey-of-love/).

Archangel Gaia said
“I am now telling you what your mission is on Earth – it is to be an angel on Earth.
“You do not have to change the people around you; you do not have to get involved in politics, or that kind of activity.
“What you are meant to do here as a lightworker is to anchor a certain vibration.”
(Gaia, ”Earth Speaks: Your Mission on Earth,” through Pamela Kribbe, March 13, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/03/13/earth-speaks-your-mission-on-earth/.)