http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20399152

I'm not so sure decommissioning will work there

Columbia also has problems with right wing parties involved in drugs. Yet pretty much like the IRA hiding their weapons and effectively putting them out of easy reach might be a start. Northern Ireland might be a model for a solution. Also a marxist party might be more willing to co-operate with a centre left president, than a right wing leader.

The difference was even the IRA would struggle to rearm quick enough if the security forces were on the ball; FARC would only have to use their smuggling routes and start a bombing campaign in the meantime (guess who showed them how to make fuel-air bombs).

Yes the training division of the IRA.