137 © The Author(s) 2019 C. Mouly, E. Hernández Delgado (eds.), Civil Resistance and Violent Confict in Latin America, Studies of the Americas, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05033-7_7 CHAPTER 7 Civil Resistance and Peacebuilding: The Experience of the Peasant Worker Association of the Carare River Esperanza Hernández Delgado and Claudia Patricia Roa Mendoza This chapter analyses the experience of civil resistance of the Peasant Worker Association of the Carare River (ATCC) and its relationship with peacebuilding. Few authors have explored the relationship between these two concepts. One exception is Véronique Dudouet (2012), who af frms their complementarity. However, since the beginning of this century, some scholars have recognized the contributions of the ATCC to peace- E. Hernández Delgado (*) • C. P. Roa Mendoza University of La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia e-mail: eehernandez@unisalle.edu.co; claroa@unisalle.edu.co This chapter is the product of a research project in the feld of peace research, entitled “Latin American contributions to peacebuilding: Experiences of civil resistance in contexts of violent confict in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico”, supported by the Of fce for Research and Transfer (VRITT) of the University of La Salle. It was developed within the framework of the cross-cutting commitment to peace, peacebuilding and reconciliation of the Doctoral