The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy Amid Disinformation in Colombia

by Gwen Burnyeat

A multi-scale ethnography of government pedagogy in Colombia and its impact on peace.

Colombia's 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society rejected it in a polarizing referendum, amid an emotive disinformation campaign. Gwen Burnyeat joined the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, the government institution responsible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226821609
• ISBN13: 9780226821603
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"