Rejecting Peace? Legacies of Violence in Colombia

​​​​​On October 2, 2016, Colombians narrowly voted to reject the peace agreement negotiated between their government and the FARC, the country’s largest rebel group. While significant levels of abstention and a hurricane on ​the coast both contributed to the razor-thin victory for the “no” camp, past legacies of violence can help explain which communities supported the agreement and which did not.​