Paramilitaries and the Economic Origins of Armed Conflict in Colombia

Dugas, John C.

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“…For instance, in 2005 President Uribe's government approved the Peace and Justice Law (Law 975/05) to promote the demobilization of right-wing paramilitary groups, operating in close proximity to the state's defence forces. 8 However, many paramilitaries either did not disband or have re-emerged after formal demobilization of the right-wing paramilitary group AUC 9 under President Á lvaro Uribe Velez in 2006 (Dugas, 2012). Consequently, women's rights activists' efforts are hampered by paramilitaries' territorial control and conflict violence.…”

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Reframing Nationalisms and Addressing Gender-based Violence in Societies in Transition

Hoewer

2014

Ethnopolitics

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This article examines the transformation potential of international mechanisms for reframing nationalisms based on images of the nation supporting unequal gender structures and gender-based violence during periods of ethnonational conflict and conflict settlement processes. It explores opportunities and challenges for changing nationalisms informed by male hopes, aspirations and privileges by engaging with United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 and subsequent resolutions on women, peace and security. Analysing different experiences with implementing this international framework shows that engagement with UNSCR 1325 permits the boundaries of citizenship and nationality to be bridged by exploring different gender perspectives and experiences at the national level. Limitations in the transformative potential of this international mechanism are highlighted, in particular its top-down dynamic, which centres the framework at the national level of political decision-making; this provides less space for experiences and perspectives from the regional and local level to inform the implementation process. The analysis draws on findings from focus groups the author conducted with women activists from Northern Ireland, Liberia and Colombia.

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Section: Unscr 1325 As a Mechanism For Addressing Gendered Legacies Omentioning

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Reframing Nationalisms and Addressing Gender-based Violence in Societies in Transition

Hoewer

2014

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Radio Silences: The ‘Kidnapped Voices’ and the Production of Political Memory in Colombia (1994–2018)

Quiroga-Villamarín

2023

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After being kidnapped by the FARC-EP guerrilla group in 1994, the Colombian war reporter Herbin Hoyos created the radio show Las Voces del Secuestro (roughly, The Kidnapped Voices). Every morning, for 24 years, the families of those abducted by the guerrilla group sent out public messages of remembrance, hoping that their loved ones, deep in the jungles of Colombia, would be able to hear the broadcasts on their radios. Although the show closed in 2018, its legacy lives on, not only in the collective memory of many Colombians but also as an exhibition at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva (Switzerland). This article examines this show as a dispositif of power and knowledge that (re)produces a particular understanding of law, justice and memory. The show was used by far-right actors in Colombia to mobilise against the recent (2016) peace process – its crown jewel, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP). As the JEP tackles the question of the FARC-EP kidnapping through its macro-case 01, the shadow of the Voces looms large over Colombia's transitional justice system. In the longest non-international armed conflict in Latin America, even radio waves served the continuation of war by other means.

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Paramilitaries and the Economic Origins of Armed Conflict in Colombia

Cited by 2 publications

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Reframing Nationalisms and Addressing Gender-based Violence in Societies in Transition

Reframing Nationalisms and Addressing Gender-based Violence in Societies in Transition

Radio Silences: The ‘Kidnapped Voices’ and the Production of Political Memory in Colombia (1994–2018)

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