Winifred Tate has researched and written about human rights and peace issues in Colombia for the past 15 years, including three years as a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America. An anthropologist trained at New York University, she is completing her dissertation on the history of Colombian human rights activism.

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Accord Issue 14: Colombia

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