Fernán González has worked at CINEP for 32 years as a researcher on Colombian political history, the relationship of the Church and the State and the historical origins of recent violence. He is completing a PhD from the University of Berkeley, California and teaches in universities in Colombia and abroad.

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Accord Issue 14: Colombia

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