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After four years of negotiations, the Colombian State and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed the Final Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Building of a Stable and Lasting Peace. This article argues that this Agreement inaugurates a new model of peacebuilding that, for the first time, links it to state-building at the subnational level. To this end, it proposes an analytical framework that points out that armed conflicts and their regional variations undermine state capacities, making peacebuilding a window for strengthening local institutions. It then reviews peace-building efforts since the 1980s and identifies three major periods of peace-building, each with specific priorities, but none with an orientation towards local state-building. Finally, a reading of the Peace Accord is offered, highlighting that its territorial peace approach links the peacebuilding and state-building agendas at the subnational level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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