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Colombia’s fragile hold on peace is slipping.
Social leaders are fighting for both their lives and their communities.
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Following Colombia’s historic peace accord in 2016, a group of activists and human rights defenders—known as social leaders—began the grassroots work of building peace in Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, and rural communities long terrorized by conflict.