Bogotá

A graphic memoir of the everyday aspects, relevant and anecdotic of the city of Bogota in 2010. Visiting 20 places all related to Colombia's independence history, a team of 7 photographers (Lucho Mario, Daniel Santiago Salguero, Alberto Sierra Restrepo, Andrés Fresnada, Juan Pablo Fajardo, Armando de la Torre and Juan Felipe Rubio), initiated a photographic project to document diverse personages, places, landscapes and situations of the everyday history of the city. The photographs are accompanied with data, quotes, statistics, and anecdotes coordinated by researchers Catalina Holguín and...

Obra sobre politica económica y economia politica en Colombia en el contexto de la historia del país desde los años sesenta.

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.

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...