The worsening spiral of environmental destruction and violence since 2016 peace treaty between government and FARC.
This study finds that a twin human rights and environmental crisis has intensified in Colombia since the government and rebel army FARC signed a peace treaty in 2016.
The demobilisation and disarmament of FARC created a power vacuum in the Colombian Amazon that has allowed increased exploitation of natural resources and illegal economic activities, in particular the cultivation of coca plants, unregulated gold mining, livestock and agriculture. This has led not only to more environmental destruction and deforestation, but sparked a new spiral of violence.
