This week the government finally pushed through Congress a law aimed at setting the terms for the demobilisation of the paramilitaries (some 5,000 of a total of 20,000 have already demobilised).
While the memorial does tell the stories of first world war milestones and battles that Gallipoli has culturally eclipsed (Pozieres, Fromelles, Ypres, Passchendaele, Hamel, Villers Bretonneux, Beersheba and Damascus), Nelson is mindful of recounting demobilisation and the generational social and emotional legacies of the great war.
Her political consultants call it "asymmetric demobilisation".It is not an elegant or very principled strategy, but it seems a workable one.
Mr Santos plans to train urban police squads to pursue the mobs, just as he helped develop army units for jungle combat.Mr Uribe's critics say the demobilisation scheme was part of a pattern of undermining the rule of law.
To defeat the militants "and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war", he warned.In the Democratic Republic of Congo 100 former fighters or their family members have starved to death in a demobilisation camp run by the army, according to Human Rights Watch.
After recent fighting in the lawless east between government loyalists and hardliners of the RCD-Goma, the latter threatened to pull out of the transitional government.In Maniema province, in the east, thousands of Mai-Mai tribal warriors are supposed to be disarming, but hundreds have fled squalid demobilisation camps and headed back into the bush.
It looks poorly planned compared with schemes elsewhere in the world where disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, known in peacemakers' jargon as DDR, have successfully taken place.For one thing, the amnesty does not guarantee jobs for the militants as alternative sources of income and activity.
TWO years ago President Álvaro Uribe promulgated a controversial law to regulate the demobilisation of some 31,000 members of the right-wing paramilitary groups who for years fought left-wing guerrillas by inflicting a reign of terror in the Colombian countryside.
There is a long way to go before a mass demobilisation and a definitive end to the conflict.
Now the government is to demarcate assembly points where the AUC's fighters will live pending their demobilisation.
The joint communiqué added that work has begun on the other points which include the FARC's participation in politics, its demobilisation and judicial treatment, and reparation for the victims and that "we hope that going forward we will advance with greater speed".Mr Santos says he wants an agreement this year, ahead of elections in 2014.
