Violence In Colombia 1990 2000

Author : Charles Bergquist,Ricardo Peñaranda,Gonzalo Sánchez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461646693

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Violence in Colombia, 1990-2000 by Charles Bergquist,Ricardo Peñaranda,Gonzalo Sánchez Pdf

Violence In Colombia provides students with a deeper understanding of the crisis facing Colombia today. The book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the oldest and largest guerrilla insurgency in the Americas and the emergence of a powerful paramilitary right. The decade also saw a dramatic rise in homicide, kidnapping, and human rights violations that made Colombia by far the most violent nation in the hemisphere. But the 1990s was also about negotiating peace. The decade began with negotiations between the government and some of the guerrilla groups that led to their demobilization and to the important reforms codified in the Constitution of 1991. It ended with another serious attempt at negotiating peace, a historic agreement between the government and the largest and most powerful of the guerrilla groups to put a range of social and economic reforms on the negotiating table. For many, the crisis in Colombia is understood in terms of the drug trade. To be sure, the drug trade is implicated in every aspect of the crisis. And despite (or because of?) escalating efforts by the Colombian and U.S. governments to curb the trade, Colombia's role as the leading supplier of cocaine, and increasingly of heroin, to the U.S. market continues to expand. But the drug trade, by itself, cannot explain the crisis. If it could, why have other Latin American drug-producing and trafficking nations not experienced a fate like Colombia's? To answer this question, the book presents some of the best recent work by Colombian scholars on the crisis facing the nation. Violence in Colombia also includes a large section devoted to primary documents, which enables students to get a feel for the views of the protagonists in the conflict and judge for themselves the meaning of what they say. Examples include the negotiating positions of the government, the guerrillas, and the paramilitary right; testimony by kidnap victims and human rights lawyers; and assessments by U.S. officials and Colo

Author : Charles W. Bergquist,Ricardo Peñaranda,Gonzalo Sánchez G.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0842028706

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Violence in Colombia, 1990-2000 by Charles W. Bergquist,Ricardo Peñaranda,Gonzalo Sánchez G. Pdf

Violence In Colombia provides students with a deeper understanding of the crisis facing Colombia today. The book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the oldest and largest guerrilla insurgency in the Americas and the emergence of a powerful paramilitary right. The decade also saw a dramatic rise in homicide, kidnapping, and human rights violations that made Colombia by far the most violent nation in the hemisphere. But the 1990s was also about negotiating peace. The decade began with negotiations between the government and some of the guerrilla groups that led to their demobilization and to the important reforms codified in the Constitution of 1991. It ended with another serious attempt at negotiating peace, a historic agreement between the government and the largest and most powerful of the guerrilla groups to put a range of social and economic reforms on the negotiating table. For many, the crisis in Colombia is understood in terms of the drug trade. To be sure, the drug trade is implicated in every aspect of the crisis. And despite (or because of?) escalating efforts by the Colombian and U.S. governments to curb the trade, Colombia's role as the leading supplier of cocaine, and increasingly of heroin, to the U.S. market continues to expand. But the drug trade, by itself, cannot explain the crisis. If it could, why have other Latin American drug-producing and trafficking nations not experienced a fate like Colombia's? To answer this question, the book presents some of the best recent work by Colombian scholars on the crisis facing the nation. Violence in Colombia also includes a large section devoted to primary documents, which enables students to get a feel for the views of the protagonists in the conflict and judge for themselves the meaning of what they say. Examples include the negotiating positions of the government, the guerrillas, and the paramilitary right; testimony by kidnap victims and human rights lawyers; and assessments by U.S. officials and Colo

Author : Juan E. Méndez,Americas Watch Committee (U.S.)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564320642

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Political Murder and Reform in Colombia by Juan E. Méndez,Americas Watch Committee (U.S.) Pdf

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Author : Charles W. Bergquist,Ricardo Peñaranda,Gonzalo Sánchez G.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041180501

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Violence in Colombia by Charles W. Bergquist,Ricardo Peñaranda,Gonzalo Sánchez G. Pdf

Colombia has long suffered under such violence that it is now one of the most convulsed societies in the world. Far from being the result of solely the drug trade, the country's contemporary crisis stems from La Violencia (The Violence), a period of terror, political banditry and peasant unrest that plagued Colombia between the 1940s and the 1960s. The 14 essays in this collection examine La Violencia and its effects on current conditions, placing today's violence in its historical context.

Author : Paula San Pedro
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848146006

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Sexual Violence in Colombia: Instrument of war by Paula San Pedro Pdf

Author : Juan E. Méndez
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0929692489

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The "Drug War" in Colombia by Juan E. Méndez Pdf

Author : Cynthia Arnson,Robin Kirk
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 1564321185

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State of War by Cynthia Arnson,Robin Kirk Pdf

Author : Alvaro Mendez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317215738

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Colombian Agency and the making of US Foreign Policy by Alvaro Mendez Pdf

This book studies a significant event in US relations with Latin America, shedding light on the role of dependent states and their foreign policy agency in the process by which local concerns become intertwined with the dominant state’s foreign policy. Plan Colombia was a large-scale foreign aid programme through which the US intervened in the internal affairs of Colombia, by invitation. It proved to be one of the major successes of US foreign policy, and has been credited with stemming a potentially catastrophic security failure of the Colombian state. This book discusses the strategies and practices deployed by the Colombian government to influence US foreign policy decision making at the bureaucratic, legislative and executive levels, and is a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of small power agency. Giving a clearer insight into the decision making processes in both the US and Colombia, this book founds its argument on solid empirical analysis assembled from interviews of the major players in the events including: Andres Pastrana, President of Colombia; Thomas Pickering, US State Department; Arturo Valenzuela, Senior Director for Inter-American Affairs at the NSA; General Barry McCaffrey, the US ‘Drug Czar’; and Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Approaching the events in question from a bottom-up theoretical perspective that puts the emphasis on the facts of the case, this book will be of great interest to academics, students and policy makers in the field of foreign policy analysis, US foreign policy studies, and Latin American studies.

Author : Constanza López López Baquero
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003844587

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Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia by Constanza López López Baquero Pdf

This volume examines how violence and resilience is experienced in urban spaces, and explores the history of a variety of people told from the perspective of the margins. Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia provides critical and empirical examples of individuals and groups who believe in their collective power, reject war and violence, and manifest their resistance through art and activism in ways that rethread the social fabric. This book is the result of extensive fieldwork conducted over ten years in Medellín and Bogotá and it brings into focus the ways that hip hop, poetry, urban art, and the creation of communities and shared experiences bring about new ways to dignify life and inhabit the city. It analyses the contemporary history of Colombia by drawing on the critical perspectives and tools of various disciplines. It also puts into dialogue the diverse and innovative scholarship from the North and the South that addresses inequality, violence, trauma and resilience. Most importantly, it focuses on the challenges that women and young people face today in situations of conflict and post-conflict. This book will be of interest for researchers and students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as readers interested in issues of human rights and the history of the Americas.

Author : Peter Andreas,Kelly M. Greenhill
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801458309

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Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts by Peter Andreas,Kelly M. Greenhill Pdf

At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia. "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." "Between 600,000 and 800,000 women are trafficked across borders every year." "Money laundering represents as much as 10 percent of global GDP." "Internet child porn is a $20 billion-a-year industry." These are big, attention-grabbing numbers, frequently used in policy debates and media reporting. Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill see only one problem: these numbers are probably false. Their continued use and abuse reflect a much larger and troubling pattern: policymakers and the media naively or deliberately accept highly politicized and questionable statistical claims about activities that are extremely difficult to measure. As a result, we too often become trapped by these mythical numbers, with perverse and counterproductive consequences. This problem exists in myriad policy realms. But it is particularly pronounced in statistics related to the politically charged realms of global crime and conflict-numbers of people killed in massacres and during genocides, the size of refugee flows, the magnitude of the illicit global trade in drugs and human beings, and so on. In Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and policy analysts critically examine the murky origins of some of these statistics and trace their remarkable proliferation. They also assess the standard metrics used to evaluate policy effectiveness in combating problems such as terrorist financing, sex trafficking, and the drug trade.

Author : Jennifer S. Holmes
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0739104624

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New Approaches to Comparative Politics by Jennifer S. Holmes Pdf

The field of comparative politics traditionally has been divided into two camps: on the one hand, quantitatively driven work on a broad scale; on the other, more qualitative area studies. This edited collection promotes a new approach to comparative politics that transcends the debate about the future of the discipline. The contributors' essays are innovative in their interweaving of case studies of the political situations in particular regions with the project of political theorizing. The chapters take as their points of departure such diverse topics as the liberal tradition in United States politics, the impact of drug-related violence on democratic stability in Colombia, and the relationship between poverty reduction and support for democracy in Mali, thereby resoundingly demonstrating the broad relevance of the volume's unifying theme: theoretically informed comparative analysis. Students of politics, from advanced undergraduates to practicing scholars, will find this volume useful in assessing, analyzing, and uniting the fields of comparative politics and political theory.

Author : Sibylla Brodzinsky,Max Schoening
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642595512

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Throwing Stones at the Moon by Sibylla Brodzinsky,Max Schoening Pdf

Since 1964, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country’s own military. Civilians in Colombia face a range of abuses from all sides, including killings, disappearances and rape—and more than four million have been forced to flee their homes. The oral histories in Throwing Stones at the Moon describe the most widespread of Colombia’s human rights crises: forced displacement. Speakers recount life before displacement, the reasons for their flight, and their struggle to rebuild their lives. NARRATORS INCLUDE: MARIA VICTORIA, whose fight against corruption as a hospital union leader led to a brutal attempt on her life. In 2009, assassins tracked her to her home and stabbed her seven times in the face and chest. Since the attack, Julia has undergone eight facial reconstructive surgeries, and continues to live in hiding. DANNY, who at eighteen joined a right-wing paramilitary’s training camp. Initially lured by the promise of quick money, Danny soon realized his mistake and escaped to Ecuador. He describes his harrowing escape and his struggle to survive as a refugee with two young children to support.

Author : K. Maclean
Publisher : Springer
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137397362

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Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence by K. Maclean Pdf

Medellín, Colombia, used to be the most violent city on earth, but in recent years, allegedly thanks to its 'social urbanism' approach to regeneration, it has experienced a sharp decline in violence. The author explores the politics behind this decline and the complex transformations in terms of urban development policies in Medellín.

Author : Human Rights Watch/Americas
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564322033

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Colombia's Killer Networks by Human Rights Watch/Americas Pdf

VI. The U.S role

Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781644211229

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World Report 2022 by Human Rights Watch Pdf

The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.