Armar la paz es desarmar la guerra

CONTENIDO: La encuesta folclórica nacional de 1942: perspectivas de historia política y cultural - Sociedades campesinas y transición social en Colombia hacia 1940: una lectura no folclórica de la encuesta folclórica nacional de 1942.

To date, the growing body of literature about Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) has focused primarily on questions of policy design. It has widely neglected the beneficiaries of policy and their lives beyond DDR programmes. The present study intends to balance this shortcoming by systematically describing the individual perspective of ex-combatants. Through a series of 62 interviews with former Colombian paramilitaries, the themes that are central to their lives are identified. The selection of the interviewees and the interview analysis draw on grounded theory. The goal of...

"As the Samper government was rocked by allegations of drug-related corruption in the presidential campaign of 1994, Colombia's endemic crisis of governability, violence, and political participation took a dramatic turn for the worse. Moreover, Colombia/US bilateral relations degenerated into mutual accusations and recriminations. In this book, several of Colombia's leading political analysts assess this crisis and its implications for the maintainance of political stability and consolidation of democracy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

En el 2016 se conmemoran doscientos años de la ejecución en el patíbulo, y por la espalda, de Francisco José de Caldas, primer científico colombiano, intelectual que no solo estudió la naturaleza, la geografía, el clima, las plantas y las poblaciones humanas de la nación, sino que, como ciudadano, se comprometió con la revolución política y la independencia. La Universidad del Rosario convocó a destacados historiadores, nacionales y extranjeros, que han investigado el proceso de independencia en sus distintas facetas.