Armed conflict and high rates of violence are serious symptoms of unresolved structural problems of Colombian society. The Development Plan considers violence as an expression of the country' s conflicts and as an obstacle for its development, but its conception of peace is negative and ignores the causes of the conflicts; it leaves to the market and to the accumulation of capital -natural, physical, human, and social- the creation of the economic foundations of peace, and the deactivation of the war is left to political negotiation. It forgets that structural reforms are the real foundation of a lasting peace, and that justice is not the result of economic logic but rather of a collective commitment to ethical values such as full development of the capabilities of citizensand free access to property, goods and opportunities, in a context of solidarity, reciprocity, and coexistence which recognizes differences and makes it possible to resolve conflicts without resorting to force.