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Nothing signifies, in Grajales' final assessment, that Colombia's political economy of predation will change with armed groups' recent demobilisation and subsequent peacebuilding initiatives. Grajales develops a two-pronged argument as to how and why peacebuilding professionals (in international institutions, NGOs and domestic agencies) misconstrue the very nature of violence. Yet the question Jacobo Grajales confronts in I Agrarian Capitalism, War and Peace in Colombia: Beyond Dispossession i is even more fundamental: what counts as violence in the first place?. [Extracted from the article]