This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, an emblematic grassroots social movement of peasant farmers, who unusually declared themselves ¿neutral¿ to Colombiäs internal armed conflict, in the north-west region of Urabá. It reveals two core narratives in the Community¿s collective identity, which Burnyeat calls the ¿radical¿ and the ¿organic¿ narratives. These refer to the historically-constituted interpretative frameworks according to which they perceive respectively the Colombian state, and their relationship with their natural and social environments. Together, these two narratives form an ¿Alternative Community¿ collective identity, comprising a distinctive conception of grassroots peace-building. This study, centered on the Community¿s socio-economic