In October, Colombian voters shocked the country and the world by rejecting a historic peace treaty between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government. A favorable outcome would have undoubtedly brought the country closer to ending five decades of armed conflict, which has claimed the lives of over 260,000 people.

The “No” camp’s victory, spearheaded by former president Álvaro Uribe, forced the parties back to the table to renegotiate and temporarily threw the country into a state of “certain uncertainty.” Earlier this week, however, Colombia’s Congress passed a revised version of the peace accord that will not have to be approved by voters.

And the quest for peace has gained momentum on another front. Just one week after the referendum, President Juan Manuel Santos announced that formal negotiations with the country’s second-largest guerrilla force — the National Liberation Army (ELN), whose estimated 1,500 combatants are based largely in the country’s oil-rich northeastern regions and the southwest — would begin on October 27.