Violence in Colombia, 1990-2000 Waging War and Negotiating Peace

by Bergquist, Charles; Peñaranda, Ricardo; Sánchez, Gonzalo

• ISBN13: 9780842028707
• ISBN10: 0842028706
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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 eme

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Chronology	p. xi
Introduction: Problems of Violence, Prospects for Peace	p. 1
Violence, Power, and Collective Action: A Comparison between Bolivia and Colombia	p. 39
The Constitution of 1991: An Institutional Evaluation Seven Years Later	p. 53
Drug Trafficking and the National Economy	p. 75
The Equivocal Dimensions of Human Rights in Colombia	p. 95
From Private to Public Violence: The Paramilitaries	p. 127
Victims and Survivors of War in Colombia: Three Views of Gender Relations	p. 151
Social and Popular Movements in a Time of Cholera, 1977-1999	p. 171
The War on Paper: A Balance Sheet on Works Published in the 1990s	p. 179
Waging War and Negotiating Peace: The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective	p. 195
Documents
Aspects of the Constitution of 1991	p. 213
Colombian Intellectuals and the Guerrillas	p. 214
Human Rights	p. 225
Platforms/Negotiating Positions of the Armed Contenders	p. 231
U.S. Military Aid	p. 255
Labor	p. 261
Drugs	p. 267
A Call for Peace	p. 273
A Comparative Statistical Note on Homicide Rates in Colombia	p. 275
Glossary	p. 281
Index	p. 289
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