During the last year of the Havana negotiations, she published this book, which is based on her doctoral thesis. In it, López suggests a plan for the post-conflict state building with the following strategies: strengthening the institutional presence of the State, generating local markets that ensure resources for the regions and empowering citizens. The book can then be understood as a detailed evaluation of public policies of pacification, intervention and decentralization between 1982 and 2010, which serves as support for proposing a series of reforms in order to correct the causes that give rise and continuation to the armed conflict.