Farmer makes daily journey to work the land on his newly restituted land plot in Córdoba, Colombia CHALLENGE: For the past half-century, violence and terror associated with Colombia’s internal armed conflict have driven over 5 million people from their land and communities. In 2011, the Government of Colombia (GOC) passed the Victims and Land Restitution Law of 2011, a historic piece of legislation aimed at promoting reconciliation through a comprehensive reparations process that includes land restitution for displaced victims of the conflict. The Land Restitution Unit (LRU), a semiautonomous entity in the Ministry of Agriculture, was established under the law