Acknowledgments
Foreword by John Kerry, former US secretary of state
Prologue to the Spanish-Language Edition by Felipe González, former prime minister of Spain
Letter to the Reader
Introduction: Two Centuries between War and Peace
Part One: Conspiring for Peace (1991-1998)
1. A First Approach to Peace
2. Destination Columbia
3. The Story of My Conspiracy
Part Two: Creating Conditions for Peace (1998-2009)
4. The Start of the Caguán Process
5. Plan Colombia
6. The End of the Caguán Process
7. First a Hawk, Then a Dove
8. A Team for War and Peace
9. Checkmate for Terror
Lesson 1: To Achieve a Favorable Correlation of Strength
Part Three: The Secret Phase (2010-2012)
10. “Betrayal”
11. Hugo Chavez: Agreeing to Disagree
12. Rafael Corea: From Hostility to Cooperation
Lesson 2: Make Allies out of Your Enemies
13. First Approach to the Farc
14. The Fall of Number Two
15. Admitting There Is an Armed Conflict
16. The Death of Alfonso Cano
Lesson 3: Sometimes You Have to Negotiate in the Middle of the Conflict
17. First Meeting in Havana
18. The Importance of the Agenda
Lesson 4: It’s the Peace, Stupid
Part Four: The Table in Havana (2012-2016)
19. Colombia Is Informed of the Process
20. The Human Factor
21. “Nothing Is Agreed until Everything Is Agreed”
22. International Advisers
23. The Message of Francis
24. The Backing of the United States
25. The World Bets on Peace in Colombia
Lesson 5: The Importance of International Support
26. “We Mustn't Give Up Halfway”
27. The Problem of Drugs
28. The Peace Elections
29. The Example of the Victims
30. The Rights of the Victims
31. A Model of Justice for the World
32. The Point of No Return
Lesson 6: The Victims and Their Rights Should Be at the Center of the Solution
33. The End of the Conflict
34. “The Horrible Night Is Over”
Part Five: Building Peace (2016-2018)
35. The Plebiscite
36. From Hell to Heaven in Five Days
37. An Irrational Opposition
38. The Path to a New Colombia
Epilogue: It Was Worthwhile
Appendix. Peace in Colombia: From the Impossible to the Possible—Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2016
Index