Author: Officer late in the Colombian servicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Present State of Colombia
Author: Officer late in the Colombian servicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Para-State
Author: Aldo CivicoPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520288521
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-State, Aldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country’s history of violence and state control. Between 2003 and 2008, Civico gained unprecedented access to some of Colombia’s most notorious leaders of the death squads. He also conducted interviews with the victims of paramilitary, with drug kingpins, and with vocal public supporters of the paramilitary groups. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this riveting work demonstrates how the paramilitaries have in essence become a war machine deployed by the Colombian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy.
The Losing War
Author: Jonathan D. RosenPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438452993
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counternarcotics initiative.
Demobilisation and Reintegration in Colombia
Author: Francy Carranza-FrancoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351124625
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This book investigates demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The six large peace processes and amnesties that took place in Colombia over this period were nation-led, providing an interesting case study for the wider DDR literature, which has historically focused on Africa and Asia. The continuous process of creating and demobilising illegal armed groups has been pivotal in building the Colombian state. Although the peace settlements and amnesties have brought renewed cycles of violence, they have also been key to the negotiation of democracy and citizenship rights for both ex-combatants and wider sectors of the population. Here the author analyses the role of DDR programmes in building state and citizenship. Comparing DDR during Alvaro Uribe’s presidency and the peace process with the FARC guerrilla under the presidency of Juan Manuel Santos, the book draws on extensive fieldwork conducted with local authorities, officers on the ground and ex-combatants themselves. It details the process of creating and implementing DDR policy and explores the difficulties, challenges and security dilemmas ex-combatants may face in integrating within a post-conflict society in social, economic and political dimensions. Bringing us right up to date with the implementation of the FARC's peace process and the challenges ahead in the reintegration of ex-combatants under a new president, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of politics and development in Colombia, and to those with an interest in peace-building, state-building and DDR in other countries and conflicts.
The present state of Colombia, by an officer late in the Colombian service
Author: Colombia Besieged
Author: Colombia
Author: Francis HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Frontier Effect
Author: Teo BallvéPublisher:
ISBN: 9781501747533
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book disputes the commonly held view that Colombia's armed conflict is a result of state absence or failure, providing broader lessons about the real drivers of political violence in war-torn areas"--
State of Colombia
Author: Colombia. Ministerio de Relaciones ExterioresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
State of War
Author: Cynthia ArnsonPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564321183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description