In Colombia, asking for peace has historically meant questioning about his armed conflict and its possibilities of end. However, from the field of peace studies are paved the ways for a broader understanding of the concept, which goes beyond its understanding as the absence of direct violence. This process, however, has not been linear, and the discipline s research agendas have pointed in many directions, from which have drunk the processes of formation of public agenda, but also the civil society initiatives. It is the Santos government's case (2010-2014), who in his National Development Plan Hacia la Prosperidad Democratica , gives the outlines of what peace means and the ways to consolidate it, from a specific approach, which is the liberal peace. But also the Programs for Development and Peace, who take their theoretical tools from other interpretive frameworks, especially those who concerns about the local peace and the peace from the bottom. This work is intended, first, to trace the process by which the NDP and the draft of the incoming one, have instrumented the concept of peace towards specific development, growth and investment logics, which are articulated with a broader ideological and political framework, that of liberalism. And secondly, explicit interpretations that NDP and PDP make about the concepts of peace and violence, to reach a specific notion of development for each case.