Peace and rural development in Colombia: The window for distributive change in negotiated transitions.

But the author also explains how I weak government capacity i had deleterious effects on the preparation for the CRR's implementation stage, especially in terms of strengthening and creating new institutions. New laws (such as the 2011 I Law for Victims and Land Restitution i ) and institutions were created that would hold the state accountable for redistributing land and providing other kinds of support to victims as part of a larger state-building exercise. While the observations on the CRR's political feasibility creating a credible commitment was important within the frame of the negotiation phase, the author could have retrospectively commented on the CRR's current low and uneven implementation vis-à-vis the other chapters in the Peace Agreement. This chapter is particularly strong in its disaggregation of government actors and processes, and it effectively counters the oversimplified narrative of conflict-ridden states being unable to build peace due to lack of state control. [Extracted from the article]