Download or read book Community Reintegration in Colombia written by Andres Macias and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores how reintegration strategies within disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) processes have evolved and tries to determine the reasons why, from an empirical point of view, a community reintegration approach is more likely to promote reconciliation in a war-torn society. After reviewing the current literature on DDR, its relation to social capital and reconciliation, and the conceptualization of community reintegration, the paper addresses the government-led DDR process in Colombia, thoroughly analyzing the JICA, “Project for the Support of Entrepreneurship and Employment for the Households of Demobilized Ex-Combatants and the Recipient Communities,” initiated in 2008. Personal and social profiles of the participants of the project, as well as individual surveys on specific topics, were used in the assessment. Two major findings could be identified from the empirical analysis of the project. On the one hand, the community reintegration approach encourages economic reintegration of a complete household and not only of one individual. On the other hand, such an approach supports the creation, and not only the reconstruction, of a new social capital where former combatants and their families may reintegrate into. In many occasions, ex-combatants have to settle down in places different from their hometowns and away from family and friends, making it impossible to reconstruct a social network that did not exist before. Economic reintegration of entire households and facilitating the existence of a strong social capital are elements that may indeed promote reconciliation in post-conflict situations.
Download or read book Community Reintegration and the Basis for Reconciliation in Colombia written by Andres Macias and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this work is to determine whether it is likely that a community reintegration approach in the government-led DDR process will help to build a sustainable basis to ensure reconciliation within the armed conflict in Colombia. This work deals only with the social and economic reintegration of ex-combatants and its implications towards reconciliation. The main focus is on the reintegration strategies implemented after 2003, when collective and individual demobilizations of illegal armed groups started to take place. The results of the analysis indicate that community-oriented policies, by enlarging the target group that may receive the benefits of the DDR process, support the economic recovery of the ex-combatant's household and improve the welfare of the receiving community. It is also evident that the community-oriented approach helps to reduce the ex-combatants' dependency from humanitarian assistance, making the reintegration process more sustainable. The results also reveal that a community-based approach is capable of building and strengthening the required social capital and mutual trust that facilitates reconciliation among all parties involved.
Download or read book Demobilisation and Reintegration in Colombia written by Francy Carranza-Franco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Social Integration and Conflict in a Developing Community of the Colombian Interior written by David Garvin Cartano and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social and economic reintegration of former combatants Challenging human rights and peacebuilding written by Andrés Home and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Region: Middle and South America, grade: 1,3, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), course: Human Rights and Conflict, language: English, abstract: On July the 7th 2008, one of the most important opinion publications in Colombia "SEMANA" published an article called “El ensayo y error de la reintegración” (Trial and error of the reintegration programme. According to this article, part of the nearly fifty thousand former combatants (left oriented guerrilla groups and right oriented paramilitary groups) considers that the Colombian government has not kept its commitments in the framework or the reintegration program of ex-combatants into civilian life. For instance, the article stresses that some of the demobilized persons do not have access to health and education (particularly vocational training) services and psychological orientation and for this reason the former combatants run the risk of returning to armed conflict (Semana 2008). This situation seems to validate the "positive peace theory", which suggests that the end of violence via peace agreement does not necessarily mean the achievement of peace. On the contrary, in the aftermath of any intense violence or any so called post-conflict situation, new challenges and opportunities arise, which have to be taken into account if one wants to achieve a real transition toward the ideal of peace.
Download or read book Peacebuilding in Colombia written by Joan C. Lopez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Consolidating Disarmament written by Jonathan Morgenstein and published by . This book was released on with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Colombia and the AUC -- National government structures -- Demobilized combatants -- The greater community -- Conclusion.
Download or read book Security and Post Conflict Reconstruction written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Para State written by Aldo Civico and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Building a Future on Peace and Justice written by Kai Ambos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Results of the 2007 Nuremberg Conference on Peace and Justice: Tensions between peace and justice have long been debated by scholars, practitioners and agencies including the United Nations, and both theory and policy must be refined for very practical application in situations emerging from violent conflict or political repression. Specific contexts demand concrete decisions and approaches aimed at redress of grievance and creation of conditions of social justice for a non-violent future. There has been definitive progress in a world in which blanket amnesties were granted at times with little hesitation. There is a growing understanding that accountability has pragmatic as well as principled arguments in its favour. Practical arguments as much as shifts in the norms have created a situation in which the choice is increasingly seen as "which forms of accountability" rather than a stark choice between peace and justice. It is socio-political transformation, not just an end to violence, that is needed to build sustainable peace. This book addresses these dilemmas through a thorough overview of the current state of legal obligations; discussion of the need for a holistic approach including development; analysis of the implications of the coming into force of the ICC; and a series of "hard" case studies on internationalized and local approaches devised to navigate the tensions between peace and justice.
Download or read book Participation in Peacebuilding written by Meredith Maynard and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colombia and its civil and state institutions, including the Colombian Agency for Reintegration (ACR), have been implementing Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programs for over a decade. Concurrently the largest peace talks in Colombia's history are reaching milestones in Havana, Cuba. Participants in the ACR's programming include former adult and child combatants of most of Colombia's illegal armed guerrilla and paramilitary groups. Independent research through semi-structured interviews in Bogotá and Medellin, Colombia was conducted to examine levels of internal beneficiary participation within the Colombian Agency for Reintegration's (ACR's) programming, as well as the ability of ACR programs to meet participants' needs and contribute to the progressing peace process in Colombia. Active participants and former participants in the reintegration process, and ACR staff were surveyed through interviews for quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Findings demonstrate moderate levels of participation from participants, a moderate to high level of participant needs satisfaction, and a high perception of stigma felt by the reintegrated population. Recommendations were given to increase beneficiary participation within program development initiatives and to increase programs' structural flexibility to meet participants' needs more effectively. The main findings support general development literature in that increased input and ownership from stakeholders in programming leads to more efficacious results. Participation in peace processes in Colombia and on a global scale, increases stakeholder satisfaction and can lead to more sustainable, long-term peace.
Download or read book Potentialities and Challenges of the Colombian Reintegration Process as a Guarantee of Non repetition written by Adelaida María Ibarra Padilla and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) and transitional justice usually take place simultaneously, most of the time these processes are not planned bearing the other in mind. Conversely, "they are often in tension or competition, pursuing competing demands and potentially drawing on the same scarce donor pools" (Sriram & Herman, 2009). In general, this disconnection between DDR and transitional justice is due to the different populations and concerns that they have traditionally addressed. While DDR aims at security issues -arms control and political stability- and its target group is formed by ex-combatants, transitional justice focusses on accountability -mainly by trials and truth commissions- and deals with the demands of victims. DDR and transitional justice interests have been located in the extremes of the debate peace vs justice. This doctoral study deals with the question of the points of divergence and articulation between these two aspects of peace-building and how to bring them closer in order to achieve a sustainable peace. In the international framework, there has been -a progressive shift from minimalist (security-first) to maximalist (development-oriented) programming- in the approach to DDR (Muggah, 2010, p. 11). Something similar has happened with the transitional justice. Transitional justice today goes beyond mere retributive justice to a broader conceptualization of justice that embraces truth, material and symbolic redress of victims, reconstruction of the social fabric, memory, reconciliation, and the guarantee of non-repetition of the past human rights violations. In this last aspect, the social, economic, and political reintegration of former combatants into society is quite significant. The maximalist approach of DDR and the restorative approach of transitional justice have led to the two fields converging on certain aspects; it has created an intersection, which is addressed in this study."--Tomado del Formato de Documento de Grado.
Download or read book Young University Students Social Images of the Reintegration Process of Ex FARC EP Guerrillas Into Civil Society in Bogot Colombia written by Leonardo Luna and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploratory qualitative case study recruited twelve youth who were in the first semester of a university program in the city of Bogotá, Colombia, to explore their social images of the FARC-EP ex-combatants' reintegration process, and how they perceive their ideas about possible interactions with ex-combatants that could occur in spaces such as the university, the neighbourhood, and the work place. The twelve participants represent some of the subsets of the Colombian youth population who are considered to be receivers of cultural, social, and political dynamics as well as being agents of transformation. They expressed their fears, rejection, acceptance, and hopes related to FARC-EP ex-combatants' reintegration into civil society. The key findings of this study indicate that the respondents are thinking, feeling, and talking about peace, justice, and the Colombian conflict. Their narratives expressed an insider's knowledge and emotions about the peacebuilding process-taking place in the country. Theirs fears about the ex-combatants' reintegration includes: (1) FARC-EP's lack of honesty in signing the peace agreement and the impossibility of the organization behaving according to Colombian laws; (2) They also demonstrated openness to the reintegration process and the need of accepting ex-combatants as part of their daily life, especially because some are optimistic that the society can transform the conflict; (3) Most of the participants showed knowledge about the reintegration process and FARC-EP, and had different opinions about whether it is a terrorist or rebel group; (4) They displayed critical thinking in analysing the origins of information that they receive that is related to the peace process; (5) The participants' ideas about Colombia's most recent reintegration process provides some interesting insights into how to build sustainable peace in this divided society; (6) The interviewees' reported that reconciliation and forgiveness were critical ingredients of the peacebuilding process; and, (7) The storytelling methodology is an important method in gathering data from young people in protracted conflicts (see Senehi, 2019). This study contributes to the Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) literature by highlighting the crucial role of including youth voices in peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts in post peace accord societies (see Byrne et al., 2019).
Download or read book State Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations For 2010 Part 3 111 1 Hearings written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Justice in Conflict written by Mark Kersten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the international community simultaneously pursues peace and justice in response to ongoing conflicts? What are the effects of interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the wars in which the institution intervenes? Is holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable a help or hindrance to conflict resolution? This book offers an in-depth examination of the effects of interventions by the ICC on peace, justice and conflict processes. The 'peace versus justice' debate, wherein it is argued that the ICC has either positive or negative effects on 'peace', has spawned in response to the Court's propensity to intervene in conflicts as they still rage. This book is a response to, and a critical engagement with, this debate. Building on theoretical and analytical insights from the fields of conflict and peace studies, conflict resolution, and negotiation theory, the book develops a novel analytical framework to study the Court's effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. This framework is applied to two cases: Libya and northern Uganda. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the core of the book examines the empirical effects of the ICC on each case. The book also examines why the ICC has the effects that it does, delineating the relationship between the interests of states that refer situations to the Court and the ICC's institutional interests, arguing that the negotiation of these interests determines which side of a conflict the ICC targets and thus its effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. While the effects of the ICC's interventions are ultimately and inevitably mixed, the book makes a unique contribution to the empirical record on ICC interventions and presents a novel and sophisticated means of studying, analyzing, and understanding the effects of the Court's interventions in Libya, northern Uganda - and beyond.
Download or read book Colombia s Political Economy at the Outset of the Twenty First Century written by Bruce M. Bagley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Colombia’s political economy at the outset of the twenty-first century. A group of leading experts explores various issues, such as drug trafficking, organized crime, economic performance, the internal armed conflict, and human rights. The experts highlight the various challenges that Colombia faces today. This volume is a major contribution to the field and provides a current panorama of the Colombia conflict.
Download or read book Shaping Peacebuilding in Colombia written by Catalina Montoya Londoño and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the involvement of the international community in peacebuilding efforts in Colombia since 2016.
