The ideas of peace and peacebuilding seem to be universal and uncontroversial. However, the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreements has evidenced that this is not so, and that there are many ideas of peace and of how to build peace at the community level. This article aims to understand how the Peace Community of Apartadó perceives and experiences the Havana Peace Agreements, considering the ongoing violence and political exclusion of ethnic minorities and peasant populations in the territory. We will map out the main obstacles for the implementation of the Agreements, as well as the debate over how the community has mobilized to overcome violence and build peace within the territory. Through the analysis of everyday practices and the community’s discourse, we argue that there are processes that precede and go beyond the Havana Agreements, and that the community’s understanding of the conflict, as well as its daily peace-building practices, based on their knowledge and notions of land tenure, work and food sovereignty, are important sources of knowledge for constructing long-lasting peace models.
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