Peacebuilding In Colombia

Author : Helen Berents
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351368216

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Young People and Everyday Peace by Helen Berents Pdf

Young People and Everyday Peace is grounded in the stories of young people who live in Los Altos de Cazucá, an informal peri-urban community in Soacha, to the south of Colombia’s capital Bogotá. The occupants of this community have fled the armed conflict and exist in a state of marginalisation and social exclusion amongst ongoing violences conducted by armed gangs and government forces. Young people negotiate these complexities and offer pointed critiques of national politics as well as grounded aspirations for the future. Colombia’s protracted conflict and its effects on the population raise many questions about how we think about peacebuilding in and with communities of conflict-affected people. Building on contemporary debates in International Relations about post-liberal, everyday peace, Helen Berents draws on feminist International Relations and embodiment theory to pay meaningful attention to those on the margins. She conceptualises a notion of embodied-everyday-peace-amidst-violence to recognise the presence and voice of young people as stakeholders in everyday efforts to respond to violence and insecurity. In doing so, Berents argues for and engages a more complex understanding of the everyday, stemming from the embodied experiences of those centrally present in conflicts. Taking young people’s lives and narratives seriously recognises the difficulties of protracted conflict, but finds potential to build a notion of an embodied everyday amidst violence, where a complex and fraught peace can be found. Young People and Everyday Peace will be of interest to scholars of Latin American Studies, International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies.

Author : Joan C. Lopez,Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000915532

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Peacebuilding in Colombia by Joan C. Lopez,Beth Fisher-Yoshida Pdf

In this book, Joan C. Lopez and Beth Fisher-Yoshida offer an alternative narrative of youth and peacebuilding, to the popular one about youth, violence, and peacemaking. Using testimonies of current and past youth community leaders in Colombia, Lopez and Fisher-Yoshida tell a story of hope, creativity, and unrelenting resilience. They bring attention to the ways peaceful responses to violent conflicts are formed in communities and how these have the potential to inform processes of peacebuilding in areas with similar social and historical characteristics. Focused on action-oriented initiatives, the book concludes by proposing ways in which social change can continue to happen and how we might be able to foster it. Lopez and Fisher-Yoshida specifically explore ways in which we can continue to support efforts and create new initiatives for other youth. Some of these ideas include doing more capacity building, fostering more networking and knowledge transfers, identifying ways of increasing social entrepreneurship, and building more effective youth leaders. Peacebuilding in Colombia fills an important gap in the literature on the characteristics of peacebuilding. It is a must read for academics, students and practitioners interested in the study and practice of peacebuilding in violent and post violent contexts.

Author : Virginia Marie Bouvier
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781601270382

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Colombia by Virginia Marie Bouvier Pdf

Documents and analyzes the vast array of peace initiatives that have emerged in Colombia. This title explores how local and regional initiatives relate to national efforts and identifies possible synergies. It examines the multiple roles of civil society and the international community in the country's complex search for peace.

Author : Catalina Montoya Londoño
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529211726

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Shaping Peacebuilding in Colombia by Catalina Montoya Londoño Pdf

During the second half of the 20th century, Colombia suffered extreme levels of political violence. This book explores the involvement of the international community in peacebuilding efforts in Colombia since 2016. In particular, it examines how interventions were framed in order to promote and sustain their involvement and questions whether these frames reflected reality within Colombia. The book focuses on key donors, including the US, the EU, Canada, Sweden and the UK, as well as multinational actors, such as the UN and the World Bank, to demonstrate how their framing of local issues for national and international consumption can have real world implications for peacebuilding efforts on the ground.

Author : Gwen Burnyeat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319514789

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Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building by Gwen Burnyeat Pdf

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 Colombia’s 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 cacao-farming project, offers an innovative way of approaching victims’ organizations and social movements through critical, post-modern politics and anthropology. It will become essential reading to Latin American ethnographers and historians, and all interested in conflict resolution and transitional justice. Read the author's blog drawing on the book here: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2018/06/07/colombias-unsung-heroes/

Author : Dorly Castañeda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137357311

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The European Approach to Peacebuilding by Dorly Castañeda Pdf

Examining peacebuilding through the intersection of security, development and democracy, Castaneda explores how the European Union has employed civilian tools for supporting peacebuilding in conflict-affected countries by working at the same time with CSOs and government institutions.

Author : Virginia M. Bouvier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Colombia
ISBN : PURD:32754076796170

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Harbingers of Hope by Virginia M. Bouvier Pdf

Author : Jefferson Jaramillo-Marín,Luz Mery López-Lizarazo,Adriel Ruiz-Galvan,Matthew Louis Bishop,Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo,Juan Miguel Kanai,Melanie Lombard,Simon Rushton,Anastasia Shesterinina,Henry Staples
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529230000

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Participating in Peace by Jefferson Jaramillo-Marín,Luz Mery López-Lizarazo,Adriel Ruiz-Galvan,Matthew Louis Bishop,Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo,Juan Miguel Kanai,Melanie Lombard,Simon Rushton,Anastasia Shesterinina,Henry Staples Pdf

What role does dialogue play in peacebuilding? How can community-based activities contribute to broader peace processes? What can participatory research methods add to local efforts to build peace? In this book, the authors examine these questions through their work with two different Colombian communities who have pursued dialogue amidst ongoing violence, environmental injustice and socio-economic challenges. By reflecting on what people in these contrasting places have achieved through participatory peacebuilding, the authors explore different forms of local agency, the prospects for non-extractive academic engagement, and practical and theoretical lessons for participating in peace in other conflict-affected settings.

Author : Carl Meacham,Douglas Farah,Robert D. Lamb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442228122

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Colombia by Carl Meacham,Douglas Farah,Robert D. Lamb Pdf

This report from the CSIS Americas Program provides a detailed look at the challenges the Colombian government confronts as it moves from providing security to developing rural areas that were previously conflict zones. In particular, the report examines such issues as remaining security needs; land tenure; needed infrastructure improvements; and better governance. In addition, the report offers recommendations on how the Colombian government can move forward in consolidating gains in its countryside—and how the United States can help.

Author : Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora,Andrés Molina-Ochoa,Nancy C. Doubleday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000375206

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The Colombian Peace Agreement by Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora,Andrés Molina-Ochoa,Nancy C. Doubleday Pdf

This book is the first systematic, interdisciplinary examination of the peace agreement signed between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to end one of the largest and most violent conflicts in the Western Hemisphere. It discusses the achievements, failures, and challenges of this innovative peace agreement and its implications for Colombia’s future. Contributors include negotiators of the Agreement, judges of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, representatives of the civil society, and leading academic experts in peace studies, human rights, international law, criminal law, transitional justice, political science, and philosophy. Based on the premise that peace is a form of transferable social knowledge, and therefore necessitates transformative social learning, the volume also discusses what other countries can learn from the Colombian experience. This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, transitional justice, Latin American politics, human rights, civil wars and International Relations.

Author : James Meernik,Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt,Mauricio Uribe-López
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499040

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After War Ends by James Meernik,Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt,Mauricio Uribe-López Pdf

A comprehensive and timely analysis of the prospects for peace and justice in Colombia.

Author : Daniela Forero Nuñez
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783961164233

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Colombia and the European Union as key partners for peace by Daniela Forero Nuñez Pdf

Colombia’s long path towards peace was heavily marked by the signing of a peace agreement in 2016 that was supposed to officially put an end to the longest-running conflict in modern Latin America. Nevertheless, even after more than four years since that historic milestone, violence continues to plague the country, endangering the transition towards a real transformation. Although the conflict’s origin is complex and multicausal, some of its root causes, such as socioeconomic inequality, limited political participation and the State’s absence in several regions, remain unsettled. Colombia faces a still tremendous challenge: the implementation of the peace accords – which independently of their actual fulfillment – rely on a broad reconciliation and consensus-seeking process. The European Trust Fund for Colombia (EUTF for Colombia) – established in December 2016 – embodies the EU’s aim to contribute to sustainable development in the long run. This premise builds the essence of the EU Development Policy. The following thesis attempts to examine the EU peacebuilding strategy in Colombia in the aftermath of the conflict. The main question guiding the research is: To what extent has the EUTF for Colombia contributed to the building of a just and sustainable peace in the country during the post-conflict era?

Author : Fabio Andres Diaz Pabon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351373685

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Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Colombia by Fabio Andres Diaz Pabon Pdf

The signing of the peace agreements between the FARC-EP and the Colombian Government in late November 2016 has generated new prospects for peace in Colombia, opening the possibility of redressing the harm inflicted on Colombians by Colombians. Talking about peace and transitional justice requires us to think about how to operationalize peace agreements to promote justice and coexistence for peace. This volume brings together reflections by Colombian academics and practitioners alongside pieces provided by researchers and practitioners in other countries where transitional justice initiatives have taken place (Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Peru). This volume has been written in the south, by the south, for the south. The book engages with the challenges ahead for the coming generations of Colombians. Rivers of ink have dealt with the end goals of transitional justice, but victims require us to take the quest for human rights beyond the normative realm of theorizing justice and into the practical realm of engaging how to implement justice initiatives. The tension between theory—the legislative frameworks guaranteeing human rights—and practice—the realization of these ideas—will frame Colombia’s success (or failure) in consolidating the implementation of the peace agreements with the FARC-EP.

Author : Daniela Forero Nuñez
Publisher : Diplomica Verlag
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3961468672

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Colombia and the European Union as Key Partners for Peace. Successes and Shortcomings of the EU Peacebuilding Strategy in Colombia in the Post-conflict Scenario by Daniela Forero Nuñez Pdf

Colombia's long path towards peace was marked by the signing of a peace agreement in 2016 that was supposed to officially put an end to the longest-running conflict in modern Latin America. Even after more than four years, violence continues to plague the country. Although the conflict's origin is complex and multicausal, some of its root causes, such as socioeconomic inequality, limited political participation and the state's absence in several regions, remain unsettled. Since the effects of this conflict's prolongation go far beyond Colombian national borders, the international community has been morally obliged to cooperate with the national government to support the building of sustainable peace in the country by helping to tackle some of the structural causes of the conflict. Specifically, The European Trust Fund for Colombia (EUTF for Colombia) - established in December 2016 - embodies the EU's aim to contribute to sustainable development in the long run. The following study attempts to examine the EU peacebuilding strategy in Colombia in the aftermath of the conflict.

Author : Geraldine McDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Colombia
ISBN : 1852871849

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Peacebuilding from Below by Geraldine McDonald Pdf