Download or read book Returns of Internally Displaced Persons during Armed Conflict written by David James Cantor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 2017, it was estimated that over 40 million people were displaced within their own countries by conflict and violence across at least 56 countries worldwide. Solutions to the epidemic of forced internal displacement are frequently premised on the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Indeed, as a characteristic need of IDPs, such returns benefit from a special protection framework developed by IDP protection instruments such as the Guiding Principles. However, the legal status of those instruments remains ambiguous, generating attendant questions about the congruity of the IDP return framework with existing international law. Moreover, limited knowledge exists on its practical implementation. As a result, both inter-national agencies and individual scholars have repeatedly issued urgent calls for comprehensive and grounded theoretical investigation into this topic. This book answers those long-standing calls for research by presenting a detailed study of the return of conflict-afffected IDPs under international law.
Download or read book Papers relative to the Affairs of British Colombia written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Resisting War written by Oliver Kaplan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how local social organization and cohesion enable covert and overt nonviolent strategies.
Download or read book Democracy and Displacement in Colombia s Civil War written by Abbey Steele and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy and Displacement in Colombia’s Civil War is one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws on her own original field research as well as on Colombian scholars’ work in Spanish to provide an expansive view of the country’s political conflicts. Steele shows how political reforms in the context of Colombia’s ongoing civil war produced unexpected, dramatic consequences: democratic elections revealed Colombian citizens’ political loyalties and allowed counterinsurgent armed groups to implement political cleansing against civilians perceived as loyal to insurgents. Combining evidence collected from remote archives, more than two hundred interviews, and quantitative data from the government’s displacement registry, Steele connects Colombia’s political development and the course of its civil war to purposeful displacement. By introducing the concepts of collective targeting and political cleansing, Steele extends what we already know about patterns of ethnic cleansing to cases where expulsion of civilians from their communities is based on nonethnic traits.
Download or read book Colombia Contemplates a New Normal written by and published by World Politics Review. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With FARC peace talks offering hope of a final settlement, Colombia is looking to cement the gains of the past decade. To do so will require filling in significant gaps in governance and building on the economic momentum provided by the U.S. free trade agreement and the Pacific Alliance. This World Politics Review special report looks at Colombia's steps toward a new era of stability.
Download or read book The Book of Hope written by Carley Centen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infuse your day with positivity and possibility with these 250 empowering activities, encouraging quotes, and uplifting meditations to live with each day filled with optimism and hope. Hope is more than a feeling or moment. It’s an outlook, belief, and way of being that can bring strength and resilience whenever times are tough. But sometimes it can be hard to find hope in everyday life. Filled with inspiring ways to help you develop and nourish a mindset full of potential optimism each and every day, The Book of Hope is here when you need it most. Now you can discover the practical skills, habits, thoughts, and actions you need to cultivate strong relationships with yourself and others and find a connection with your larger purpose and meaning. These 250 activities and inspirational quotes will help you stay grounded, find positivity, and perceive new possibilities—no matter what you’re facing!
Download or read book Colombia written by Peg Lopata and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colombia, the gateway to South America, has a rich diversity of peoples, climate and terrain. Although a long-standing democracy, since its independence from Spanish rule, this country's rival factions, class inequalities and strong regionalism have caused instability and almost ceaseless violent conflicts. With help from the United States, this war-weary nation, is working to eradicate the current challenges they face, such as a thriving illegal drug trade, lack of access to education and continual insurgencies against the government.
Download or read book Women Men and the International Division of Labor written by June C. Nash and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1984-06-30 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last few decades have witnessed a growing integration of the world system of production on the basis of a new relationship between less developed and highly industrialized countries. The effect is a geographical dispersion of the various production stages in the manufacturing process as the large corporations of industrialized "First World" countries are attracted by low labor costs, taxes, and relaxed production restrictions available in developing countries. This collection of papers focuses on inequalities among different sectors of the labor force, particularly those related to gender, and how these are affected by the changing international division of labor.
Download or read book Colombian Drug Trafficking and Control written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free Trade and Social Conflict in Colombia Peru and Venezuela written by René De La Pedraja and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign capital and free trade policies have provoked fierce conflicts in South America in recent years. People in Colombia and Peru engaged in often violent clashes to defend their livelihoods against the encroachments of the free market and the impositions of Wall Street. Farmers organized to save their lands from foreign mining corporations, and cities fought to save their water from contamination. Native Americans blocked highways to preserve ancestral lands, while students paralyzed universities and called for reforms to higher education. The shift toward socialism in Venezuela, led by President Hugo Chavez, was bitterly opposed by privileged groups. Governments tried to quell the turmoil through repression, political maneuvering and propaganda. This book provides a dramatic account of the struggles.
Download or read book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book International Educational and Cultural Exchange written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Card Carrying Christians written by Rebecca C. Bartel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit. In her exciting new book, Rebecca C. Bartel details how surging evangelical conversions and widespread access to credit cards, microfinance programs, and mortgages are changing how millions of Colombians envision a more prosperous future. Yet programs of financialization propel new modes of violence. As prosperity becomes conflated with peace, and debt with devotion, survival only becomes possible through credit and its accompanying forms of indebtedness. A new future is on the horizon, but it will come at a price.
Download or read book Polar First written by Jennifer Murray and published by PPP Company Ltd. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2007, Jennifer Murray (68) and her co-pilot Colin Bodill (57) set a new world record by becoming the first pilots to fly a round-trip from Pole to Pole - in a helicopter. From the searing heat of the Atacama desert in Peru, over the heights of the Andes and across the hostile southern oceans, to the unforgiving cold of the Antarctic and Arctic, Polar First tells the remarkable story of Murray and Bodill¿s journey into the record books - a journey which lasted 171 days, took in 26 different countries, and covered more than 33,000 nautical miles.
Download or read book Every Day The River Changes written by Jordan Salama and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk, and how a country recovers from conflict. "Richly observed." —Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez’s territory—rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox—as much as that of the Middle Eastern immigrants who run fabric stores by its banks. Following the river from its source high in the Andes to its mouth on the Caribbean coast, journeying by boat, bus, and improvised motobalinera, Salama writes against stereotype and toward the rich lives of those he meets. Among them are a canoe builder, biologists who study invasive hippopotamuses, a Queens transplant managing a failing hotel, a jeweler practicing the art of silver filigree, and a traveling librarian whose donkeys, Alfa and Beto, haul books to rural children. Joy, mourning, and humor come together in this astonishing debut, about a country too often seen as only a site of war, and a tale of lively adventure following a legendary river.
Download or read book The Economics of Violence written by Gary M. Shiffman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we understand illicit violence? Can we prevent it? Building on behavioral science and economics, this book begins with the idea that humans are more predictable than we like to believe, and this ability to model human behavior applies equally well to leaders of violent and coercive organizations as it does to everyday people. Humans ultimately seek survival for themselves and their communities in a world of competition. While the dynamics of 'us vs. them' are divisive, they also help us to survive. Access to increasingly larger markets, facilitated through digital communications and social media, creates more transnational opportunities for deception, coercion, and violence. If the economist's perspective helps to explain violence, then it must also facilitate insights into promoting peace and security. If we can approach violence as behavioral scientists, then we can also better structure our institutions to create policies that make the world a more secure place, for us and for future generations.
