ABSTRACT
The peace umbrella organisation REDEPAZ is a network of more than 400 organisations with active presence in all the regions of the country. One example of how REDEPAZ has worked with local communities was the project 'One Hundred Municipalities of Peace', initiated in the year 2001. Zones of Peace such as Mogotes, Samaniego and San Pablo are concrete examples of citizen, governmental and non-profit cooperation to protect the life, the land and the dignity of unarmed civilians. The 'One Hundred Municipalities for Peace' project was inspired in a small community called 'Mogotes' whose citizens declared their town a peace territory in 1998. This project responded to the situation of the most vulnerable sector that is currently suffering the consequences of the armed confrontation in remote regions of Colombia, often under the control of armed actors and historically abandoned and unattended by the Colombian State.
