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This report reviews the steps that have led up to the widely predicted peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The text’s author contends that in their attempts to resolve this decades-long conflict, the two parties took stock of their own past failures and the lessons they could learn from other peace processes. As a result, they 1) made a clear procedural distinction between peace negotiations and the peace process; 2) positioned the rights of victims at the very center of the talks; 3) addressed the structural problem of rural development; 4) created a Gender Subcommission; and 5) anticipated how to implement the agreement long before it might be signed.