Advancing a public security approach for local communities in violence-prone areas in Colombia

This report outlines opportunities to address current peace and security challenges affecting local communities, particularly Afro-descendant and Indigenous, within the current context through a localized human security approach. By integrating insights from field visits, engagement with key stakeholders, and community consultations in late summer 2024, this memo offers actionable recommendations to operationalize an integrated peace and security effort and reduce violence in selected sub-national areas. It is based both on national-level discussions but also the particularities of the challenges and opportunities of two regions – Nariño and Chocó – and outlines proposed pilot projects in both regions.