Ex-President Gaviria correctly claims that a equitable and sustainable peace deal in Colombia perhaps will require transitional justice mechanisms not only to broker peace with the guerrillas, but also other actors involved in the internal conflict, such as state agents and funders.

In Christianity's origins sex did not have much importance. The essence of Jesus of Nazaret's message, say teologans, can be summarized into two ideas: love your neighbor and prepare yourself, with faith and repentance, for the Final Judgement.

President Gaviria's ideas about peace are extremely useful if they are taken as the author suggests: as thoughts for a debate where they would have to be made more precise and adapted. But interpreted as some have done— like finished proposals— they are as problematic as incomplete.