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Violence and conflict in Colombia
Peace processes with the armed actors

Peace movements and mobilization
International involvement
Web resources

Violence and conflict in Colombia

Avilés, W. 'Institutions, military policy, and human rights in Colombia', Latin American perspectives, Vol. 28, No. 1 (116) 2001: 31–55

Bergquist, Charles, Ricardo Peñaranda & Gonzalo Sánchez G (eds.) Violence in Colombia 1990–2000: waging war and negotiating peace (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2001)

Chernick, Marc. ‘The dynamics of Colombia's three-dimensional war’, Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2001): 93–100

Chernick, Mark. 'Negotiating Peace amid Multiple Forms of Violence: The Protracted Search for a Settlement to the Armed Conflicts in Colombia', in Cynthia Arnson (ed.) Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America. (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1999)

Galvis, Constanza Ardila. The heart of the war in Colombia (London: Latin America Bureau, 2000)

Gamboa, M. (2001) 'Democratic discourse and the conflict in Colombia', Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 28, No. 1: 93–10

Livingstone, Grace. Inside Colombia: drugs, democracy and war (London: Latin America Bureau, 2003)

García Márquez, Gabriel. One hundred years of solitude (Many publishers, Spanish language original 1967)

Ortiz, Román. ‘Insurgent Strategies in the Post-Cold War: The Case of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’ Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 25, No. 2 (March-April 2002): 127 - 143

Pearce, Jenny. Colombia: Inside the Labyrinth (London: Latin American Bureau, 1990)

Richani, Nazih. Systems of Violence: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia (New York: State University of New York Press, 2002)

Solimano, Andres (ed.) Colombia: essays on conflict, peace and development (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2000)

Peace processes with the armed actors

Boudon, Lawrence. 'Guerrillas and the state : the role of the state in the Colombian peace process' Journal of Latin American studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1996): 279–297.

International Crisis Group. ‘Colombia: prospects for peace with the ELN’. Bogotá/Brussels, Latin America Report No. 2, 4 October 2002

International Crisis Group. ‘Colombia: negotiating with the paramilitaries’. Bogotá/Brussels, Latin America Report No. 5, 16 September 2003

International Crisis Group. ‘Demobilising the paramilitaries in Colombia: an achievable goal?’. Bogotá/Brussels, Latin America Report No. 8, 5 August 2004

Isacson, Adam. 'Was failure avoidable? Learning from Colombia's 1998-2002 peace process', The Dante B. Fascell North-South Center, Working Paper Series, WP14, March 2003.

Serres, Philippe. 'The FARC and democracy in Colombia in the 1990s', Democratization, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2000): 191–218

Tokatlian, Juan Gabriel. 'Colombia at war: the search for a peace diplomacy', International journal of politics, culture and society, Vol. 14, No. 2, (2000): 333–36

Hoskin, Gary and Gabriel Murillo. 'Colombia's perpetual quest for peace', Journal of Democracy, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2001): 32–45

Peace movements and mobilization

Cameron, Sara. Out of war: true stories from the front lines of the children’s movement for peace in Colombia (New York: UNICEF, 2001)

Gomez Serna, Monseñor Leonardo. ‘Mogotes Municipal Constituent Assembly: activating ‘popular sovereignty’ at a local level’ in Catherine Barnes (ed.) Owning the process: public participation in peacemaking, Accord 13 (London, Conciliation Resources 2002)

McDonald, Geraldine. Peacebuilding from below. Alternative perspectives on Colombia’s peace process. (London: Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1997)

Revista: Harvard Review of Latin America. ‘Colombia. Beyond Armed Actors: a look at civil society’ Spring 2003

Sanford, V. 'Peacebuilding in a War Zone: The Case of Colombian Peace Communities' International Peacekeeping, vol. 10, no. 2 (2003): 107-118

International involvement

Crandall, Russell. Driven by drugs: U.S. policy toward Colombia (Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner, 2002)

International Crisis Group. ‘Colombia and its neighbours: the tentacles of instability’. Bogotá/Brussels, Latin America Report No. 3, 8 April 2003

Leech, Garry. Killing peace: Colombia’s conflict and the failure of U.S. intervention (New York: Information Network of the Americas, 2002)

Web resources

Colombian Presidency: http://www.presidencia.gov.co/ (Spanish only)

FARC website: http://www.farcep.org/pagina_ingles/

ELN website: http://www.eln-voces.com/ (Spanish only)

AUC website: http://www.colombialibre.org/ (Spanish only)

Embassy of Colombia in Washington, DC: http://www.colombiaemb.org/

Human Rights Watch: http://hrw.org/reports/world/colombia-pubs.php/

Center for International Policy, Colombia project: http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/

US Office on Colombia http://www.usofficeoncolombia.org/

Colombia Journal: http://www.colombiajournal.org/

Planetapaz: http://www.planetapaz.org/

Ideas para la Paz: http://www.ideaspaz.org/

Medios para la Paz: http://www.mediosparalapaz.org

Paz Colombia: http://www.codhes.org.co/pazcolombia/

Redepaz: http://www.redepaz.8m.net

PDPMM: http://www.pdpmm.org.co

CINEP: http://www.cinep.org.co

 

 

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