Incomplete peace agreements may inadvertently increase insecurity if they trigger violent territorial contestation. We study the unintended consequences of the Colombian peace process and find that the permanent ceasefire declared by the FARC insurgency during peace negotiations with the government triggered a surge in the targeting of local community leaders. Leaders were killed by armed groups excluded from the peace process to thwart collective action and civilian mobilization, thus consolidating their dominance in formerly FARC-controlled areas.

This article contends that Jacques Rancie`re’s aesthetic understanding of corporeality is central tohis interpretation of intellectual emancipation. Concretely, I will argue that Rancie`re’s aestheticunderstanding can be viewed as a torsion of a body that affects its vital arrangements, whichthereby open paths for political emancipation. I will support my claim with Rancie`re’s reading of the plebeian philosopher Gauny, as well as works that have not been sufficiently considered insecondary literature, such as The Nights of Labor and The Ignorant Schoolmaster.

One of the foundational promises of deliberation in contemporary democracies was the transformation of citizen’s preferences by the force of the better arguments. However, deliberation has proved so far to be ineffective to promote inter-group changes for the better in terms of attitudes. As a result, evidence shows that even discussions lying relatively close to the theoretical ideal might nevertheless push changes in either a positive or a negative direction.