Colombia has a long complex history of conflict.  The government of President Juan Manuel Santos signed a peace agreement in 2016 with the guerrilla group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army,  which sought to end fifty years of war.  The Santos government spent great efforts negotiating with the guerrilla group but failed to communicate the value of lasting peace to the Colombian people. On this episode, we talk with author, filmmaker and researcher Dr Gwen Burnyeat from the University College London on her ethnographic study of the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, the government department responsible for peace negotiations and for explaining the peace process to the Colombian people. Dr Burnyeat has been been working on peace and conflict in Colombia for over a decade as both an engaged scholar and peacebuilding practitioner and is currently a Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Oxford, please follow Gwen at @GwenBurnyeat to learn more about her interesting work.