COLOMBIAN VOTERS stunned their government last month by rejecting a painstakingly negotiated peace accord with the FARC guerrilla movement, potentially reopening a 52-year-old war that has killed some 225,000 people. The revised accord only partly addresses those concerns.
Colombia must bite the bullet and junk its controversial political system for a modified semi-presidential system with a parliament and cabinet, similar to the system in Finland. The legislative system should be modeled on the committee system used in Switzerland. The prerequisite for permanent peace is global democratization. The government of Colombia should build on a basic constitution to adopt more principles of democracy and the ideal of one world under a single set of laws. The nation’s constitution must be in step with the times. For more. details see the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development.
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