Intervenciones filosóficas en medio del conflicto

CONTENIDO: Normas propias y actitudes del conflicto - La primera ley del llano - La segunda ley del llano - La ley del sur del Tolima - Actitudes llaneras ante la transición bélica - Un problema social: la niñez abandonada - En busca de la terapéutica - Estadísticas de mortalidad - El nuevo antisocial - Otras formas estructurales - Etiología de la violencia - El tratamiento aplicado a la violencia - Sugerencias para una terapéutica.

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...

"Excellent collection of studies on border issues with Colombia delivered at a 1990 seminar organized by the Venezuelan presidential commission. Forgoing the usual chauvinistic approach, the authors, both civilian and military experts, present a comprehensive picture of the border problems, including different interpretations of Venezuela's foreign policies toward Colombia; studies of the economic, social, and ethnic characteristics of the border region; and analyses of the prospects for bilateral resolutions"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

A novelized account of the assassination of revolutionary leader Jacobo Prías Alape in 1960, considered a turning point in the years just preceding the emergence of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia.