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(On Screen): Bernard Lafayette is the director of the University of Rhode Island's Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, and he decided to try to put his studies to practical use. So off to Colombia he went, to try to solve the FARC rebellion.

Peacefully, of course. He talked around and convinced about a thousand people to join him in a march into the countryside in hopes of convincing FARC to stop fighting. He also managed to convince the governor of the Colombian state of Antioquia to come with him.

And they got surrounded by FARC troops and taken captive. Most of the marchers were released, but all the big names, including the Governor, were taken to be kept as hostages by FARC (which currently has a rather impressive stable of important hostages).

They were going to keep Lafayette, too, but it turns out he's diabetic and didn't have much of his medicine with him. So they released him.

Now he's in Medellin, leading a conference on nonviolence. Meanwhile, Governor Guillermo Gaviria is rotting in the jungle somewhere under FARC guard because he listened to Lafayette and believed in him.