Joaquín Villalobos is a former leader of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. A consultant on peacemaking and security matters, he is also a visiting scholar at Oxford University and is on the Colombia Working Group at Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC.

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Accord Issue 16: Engaging armed groups

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