Author : David E. Apter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349252581
Violence is a more and more ubiquitous phenomenon. While a great deal of attention has been paid to certain aspects, terrorism for example, it has not been studied as a political phenomenon in and of itself. In The Legitimization of Violence eight well-known specialists explore various types of violence, from ideological to fundamentalist movements, within a framework of comparative theory.
Author : Arturo Alape
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Robert A. Karl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0520293924
"Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. In this book, Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history--including the most detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency in any language--Karl provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development, and memory formation in the 1950s and 1960s. Sweeping in scope, Forgotten Peace challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Christian Jaramillo
Publisher : Palibrio
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1463378033
Why the Victims Law Applies to Me is an analysis of Colombian political philosophy, based on the authors own experiences, and departs from a specific historical context and liberal approach. The author presents a new approach to Latin Americans and Colombians realities, and denounces the misrepresentations of Colombias History, past and present. He also proposes solutions and a development platform to envision a future with optimism. Jaramillo reveals the current and past perpetrators of the violence in Colombia, denounces the public servants that plunder the countrys institutions, and relentlessly calls for the need for the State to provide Ethical and Moral education through mandatory school and university programs. With his vibrant, agile and brilliant writing style, the author submerges the reader into the complex subject of Violence. Jaramillo presents a coherent and well-documented work, which will serve as a foundation for future scholars and writers on Colombias History, especially over the last seventy years. This book contains many press releases that corroborate all aspects of Jaramillos observations, making it a very up-to-date book in terms of Colombian current affairs. The author includes an extensive bibliography at the end of the book, which documents the complex events experienced in Colombia, as well as two annexes to clarify the context for the reader.
Author : Juan Pablo Aranguren Romero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319458957
This book analyzes the implementation of Law 975 in Colombia, known as the Justice and Peace Law, and proposes a critical view of the transitional scenario in Colombia from 2005 onwards. The author analyzes three aspects of the law: 1) The process of negotiation with paramilitary groups; 2) The constitution of the Group Memoria Histórica (Historic Memory) in Colombia and 3) The process of a 2007 law that was finally not passed. The book contains interviews with key actors in the justice and peace process in Colombia. The author analyses the contradictions, tensions, ambiguities and paradoxes that define the practices of such actors. This book highlights that a critical view of this kind of transitional scenario is indispensable to determine steps towards a just and peaceful society.
Author : Winifred Tate
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0520252829
Explores how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights professionals working there--nongovernmental activists, state representatives, and military officers. From publisher description.
Author : Robin Kirk
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0786740590
More Terrible Than Death is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States and Colombia in human terms, using portraits of the Colombians and Americans involved, the author's experiences in Colombia as a writer and human rights investigator and an insider's analysis of the political realities that shape the expanding war on drugs and the growing U.S. military presence there. Looking at the war from the ground up, interviewing and profiling human rights activists, guerrillas, and paramilitaries to explain how it has changed their lives, Robin Kirk gives depth and meaning to the headlines that leave unexplained the intimate dimension of the U.S./Colombian relationship.
Author : Susan Eckstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520237455
"This splendid collection by two of our leading political sociologists pioneers new directions in the study of social justice in Latin America. What Justice? Whose Justice? is impassioned scholarship at its best. It brings together detailed studies of rights and institutions, inequality and struggle, citizenship and indigenous politics, war and peace. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in what the so-called triumph of democracy over dictatorship in the region really means today in the lives of the still dispossessed."—Matthew C. Gutmann, author of The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico "This book offers a stimulating interdisciplinary analysis of the gripping problems of justice, inequality, and citizenship, and of citizen responses to these issues in contemporary Latin America. It is essential reading on these interrelated themes."—Scott Mainwaring, co-editor of Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America "First-rate contributors address the quality of democracy in several Latin American countries in these readable and provocative essays. The volume focuses particularly on the relation between democracy and the law, on the importance of the past, and on informal politics and indigenous political movements. A must-read for all those who are tracking the course of democracy in the region and who are concerned about its political future."—Jane S. Jaquette, co-editor of Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe "For anyone who still assumes that markets plus elections suffice to resolve the problems of injustice that are the political, social, and economic patrimony of Latin America, this book will be a firm wake-up call. At the same time, the excellent case studies in this book make it clear that the current global neoliberal regime is no more effective at suppressing local struggles for justice than the more traditional forms of domination that came before it. It is valuable and provocative reading for anyone interested in understanding the contemporary political dynamics of justice and injustice."—Peter Evans, editor of Livable Cities?
Author : Steven Dudley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135954259
In Walking Ghosts, Steven Dudley, a journalist who lived in Columbia for five years, expertly chronicles the life and death of the Patriotic Union (UP), the party established by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia's largest guerrilla group. Through stories of the politicians, drug kingpins, revolutionaries, and mercenaries who play key roles in Colombia's civil strife, Dudley maps out the complicated and murderous absurdity that is present-day Colombia, where daily life has devastating consequences: 30,000 murders per year, 75 political assassinations per week, 10 kidnappings a day. As the conflict gets bloodier, international pressure and influence mounts: Worried about the FARC's strength and its role in the drug trade, the United States has sent close to three billion dollars in aid to help the Colombian government fight the FARC. Steven Dudley seeks to make sense of this complicated conflict by focusing on the stories of key actors in the struggle, from the earliest days to the present. He has seen the civil war up close: dead bodies; paramilitaries; guerrillas; victims; and survivors. He has witnessed political parties grappling for power by any means necessary, and he's spoken to all sides and asked the difficult questions. Fast-paced and informative, with a new afterword by the author, Walking Ghosts presents a window into a conflict likely to shape the politics of this hemisphere for years to come.
Author : Eileen F. Babbitt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815651244
Preventing sweeping human rights violations or wars and rebuilding societies in their aftermath require an approach encompassing the perspectives of both human rights advocates and practitioners of conflict resolution. While these two groups work to achieve many of the same goals—notably to end violence and loss of life—they often make different assumptions, apply different methods, and operate under different values and institutional constraints. As a result, they may adopt conflicting or even mutually exclusive approaches to the same problem. Eileen F. Babbitt and Ellen L. Lutz have collected groundbreaking essays exploring the relationship between human rights and conflict resolution. Employing a case study approach, the contributing authors examine three areas of conflict—Sierra Leone, Colombia, and Northern Ireland—from the perspectives of participants in both the peace-making and human rights efforts in each country. By spotlighting the role of activists and reflecting on what was learned in these cases, this volume seeks to push scholars and practitioners of both conflict resolution and human rights to think more creatively about the intersection of these two fields.
