Rural participatory peacebuilding was central to the peace agreement signed between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). Although rural reform included several elements dealing with the agrarian legacies of the war, none of them were implemented before the participatory process took place. We spend several months in three municipalities during the first year of implementation as the local participatory process unfolded. We find that structural obstacles with significant agrarian roots were affecting local participatory peacebuilding. Specifically, by comparing cases of how these legacies produced a persistent lack of trust of the state, fatally debilitated the organizational capacity of communities and drastically hindered the social reintegration of ex‐combatants, we show that local participation cannot replace structural agendas of rural reconstruction. Participatory democracy should be welcomed as peacebuilding strategy in rural contexts. In practice, however, when this promotion of local participation fails to be nested within a wider political pact addressing the deep agrarian dimension of the conflict, the net result is to displace responsibility from the national political class towards local communities who are asked to confront the legacies of war largely on their own.

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很大程度上依靠自己：通过地方参与性建设和平来处理农村的冲突遗留问题

农村参与式建设和平是哥伦比亚政府与哥伦比亚武装部队之间签署的和平协议的核心。尽管农村改革包括涉及战争土地遗留问题的若干要素，但在参与性进程发生之前，这些要素均未得到实施。在实施的第一年中，随着当地参与进程的展开，我们在三个市镇度过了几个月的时间。我们发现，具有重要农业根源的结构性障碍正在影响地方参与性建设和平。具体而言，通过比较这些传统如何导致国家持续缺乏信任，严重削弱社区的组织能力并严重阻碍前战斗人员重新融入社会的案例，我们表明，地方参与不能代替农村重建的结构性议程。参与式民主应作为农村环境下的建设和平战略而受到欢迎。但是，实际上，当这种促进地方参与的努力未能套在解决冲突的深层土地问题的更广泛的政治协议中时，最终结果是将责任从国家政治阶层转移到要求面对冲突的地方社区。战争遗留在很大程度上取决于自己。