First, the current effects of Coronavirus and other factors impacting the peace process should be noted. If the structural failures of Colombian peace could be attributed to any one issue the most, it is the security policy over the last 20 years. Through that lens, there is a noticeable snowball effect that the Colombian military’s responsibilities and strategies have created in the country and the widespread implications seen today. This analysis of the Colombian conflict and peace is focused on military and security policy. One of the gravest issues in Colombia and threats to the peace process is what underlines the effects of the pandemic: the structure and failure of the military organization and security strategy. The pandemic has not, in essence, created issues in the peace process but instead escalated its decline by exacerbating issues at play since as early as the 1950s. If the pandemic was a fundamental issue to Colombian peace, the current situation would then have been nonexistent, or at least greatly suppressed, under a different course for this year alone, and the effects of our current reality would then be at least somewhat reversible with the eventual reduction in the course of the pandemic. While partially true, COVID-19 is more so kindling as opposed to a root cause. A general consensus in recent discussions is that COVID-19 and government mismanagement are at fault for this regression. The protection of these former fighters was a key part of the Colombian peace process, and its failure will likely drive some back to extremism, dissuade others from entering the process, and kill off its current support, both figuratively and literally. Ultimately, the state of security forces has led to an uptick in violence and the failure to protect former guerilla fighters who have tried to reintegrate. Concerns being voiced on security policy note the inefficiency of security forces in traversing the pandemic and the further withdrawal of forces from rural Colombia to enforce quarantine measures in major cities. In the current scope of events, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a sudden shift in the focus on the Colombian security dilemma.
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