Bogotá

"El revés de la trama de La Guerra De Los Violines del laureado escritor Fernando Ayala Poveda. La Metanovela bisagra de la Memoria, la Paz y el Postconflicto. Una aventura apasionante a los territorios heridos de Colombia a través de la cartografia de los sueños, las voces, las víctimas y los héroes sin tumba. Un análisis de la cocina literaria e histórica de una novela con 72 versiones iluminada por Historia De Un Deicidio de Mario Vargas Llosa sobre Cien Años De Soledad de García Márquez. Actores de la vida real y personajes de ficción fluyen como la vida misma, tocando las...

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...

"Very thoughtful study of a problem of the utmost importance for Colombia. The author analyzes the country's economic and political development since the post-war to better understand the profound changes it has undergone; he then proceeds to survey the known facts about the illegal drug industry. Within this context, Thoumi attempts to determine why Colombia developed, since the 1970s, a marijuana, and subsequently a cocaine, industry. Further, he evaluates the effects of the drug trade on the Colombian economy and social order. The final analysis suggests that Colombia's chances of reducing ...

"Exceptional studies on implications of specific reforms which followed adoption of 1991 constitution. Issues include waging of war and right to peace, Andean commercial integration, private property, and political reform"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.