Peacebuilding and post-conflict tourism: addressing structural violence in Colombia

Guasca, Mónica; Vanneste, Dominique; Broeck, Anne Marie Van

doi:10.1080/09669582.2020.1869242

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“…The joint effort of tourism managers in post-conflict areas should focus on harnessing the potential of tourism to promote peace. A good post-conflict tourism management will allow, in the short or medium term, areas to respond promptly in the creation of employment, dynamization of the economy, and redistribution of income [35,66,67]. On the other hand, the tourism mission and vision should be elevated to the level of a strategic sector of national development, as a state policy.…”

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“…Search Parameters Scopus/Web of Science Historical situation of the conflict and tourism ("Post-conflict" and "Tourism") and ("Colombia"/"Ecuador") 7 [34][35][36][37][38][39][40] Current situation COVID- 19 ("COVID" and "Tourism") and ("Colombia"/"Ecuador") 8 [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]…”

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“…Recent publications describe that this conflict in the Amazon region greatly affected neighboring Ecuador, specifically the Province of Sucumbíos. FARC members used the border area between the Department of Putumayo and the Province of Sucumbíos to avoid controls and increase their illicit crop cultivation capacity; the dense vegetation and jungle area was conducive to hiding their camps and plantations [14,35]. Thus, this area was considered strategic during the half-century of armed conflict.…”

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Nature Tourism on the Colombian—Ecuadorian Amazonian Border: History, Current Situation, and Challenges

Mestanza-Ramón

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2021

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Global conflicts can severely affect a nation’s tourism activities. Tourism can also be seriously affected by health problems such as epidemics or pandemics. It is important to establish strategies to be prepared for adverse situations. The objective of this study focused on analyzing nature tourism from a post-conflict and post-COVID-19 situation in the Amazonian border of Colombia (Department of Putumayo) and Ecuador (Province of Sucumbíos), which will contribute to establishing future strategic management scenarios. In order to respond to this objective, a systematic bibliographic review was carried out, accompanied by fieldwork (interviews). The results indicate that in the face of adverse situations, the tourism industry has the capacity to be resilient. The success of its recovery will be directly proportional to its capacity to create policies and strategies that allow it to take advantage of natural resources and turn them into an opportunity for the socioeconomic development of its population.

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Nature Tourism on the Colombian—Ecuadorian Amazonian Border: History, Current Situation, and Challenges

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2021

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“…2013; Guasca et al. 2020). Such participation has been embedded in neoliberal governance frameworks, mainly in response to a critique of top‐down modernisation models, the failure of the state, the external imposition of programmes, and the limitations of grand explanatory narratives (Cooke and Kothari 2001; Hickey and Mohan 2004).…”

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“…Local participation in peacebuilding has been embraced as a milestone for revitalising war-torn economies, promoting reconciliation, and enduring democratic stabilisation (Didier et al 2013;Guasca et al 2020). Such participation has been embedded in neoliberal governance frameworks, mainly in response to a critique of top-down modernisation models, the failure of the state, the external imposition of programmes, and the limitations of grand explanatory narratives (Cooke and Kothari 2001;Hickey and Mohan 2004).…”

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“Fests of Vests”: The Politics of Participation in Neoliberal Peacebuilding in Colombia

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The Colombian Peace Agreement signed in 2016 was saluted internationally by scholars, policy makers and practitioners for encompassing the concept of territorial peace as a means of ensuring local participation in the strengthening of state institutions. Based on engaged research conducted in the Department of Cauca and Bogotá between 2017 and 2020, we critically analyse territorial peace, exploring its ideation, implementation, and subsequent decline in favour of security and stabilisation. We argue that the government’s peacebuilding rationale and mechanisms sought to reinforce the neoliberal state through a constrained participation model, which marginalised the progressive struggles of local communities living in former conflict affected areas. Without a radical breakdown of pre‐existing power structures of exploitation and domination, community participation in peacebuilding runs the risk of legitimising state‐led initiatives that ensure the political rule of capital, strengthen the bureaucracies of the centralised state, and create new violent disputes without resolving existing ones.

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Conceptualizing Community-based Environmental Peacebuilding in Cesar, Colombia

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In conflict studies, environmental peacebuilding (EPB) has become an established concept to explain how environmental cooperation among opposing parties provides a platform for peacebuilding. EPB literature has been shaped predominantly by political science perspectives, initially with a focus on interstate conflicts, and ecological dynamics have received little attention to date. Building on the Social-Ecological Systems Framework (SESF), we develop a framework for community-based EPB and test it in post-conflict settings in the department of Cesar, Colombia. We use a qualitative mixed-methods approach, with 26 semi-structured interviews, six focus group discussions, and a World Café session with 30 participants. Our findings show that in six cases communities self-organize to access, conserve, and defend water and land resources while striving to achieve recognition of their civic rights by state actors. A central outcome of cooperation within and among communities is the (re)construction of collective and territorial identities and increased social cohesion. However, community-based EPB does not contribute to improving relations between communities and the private sector or the state, thus failing to strengthen actor relationships that are essential for Colombian peacebuilding. Despite limitations of this exploratory analysis, our approach proves fruitful for integrating ecological aspects in the understanding of EPB. To further develop the EPB concept, future research should look to other disciplines to diversify the understanding of key terms like resource value, cooperation, and peace.

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Peacebuilding and post-conflict tourism: addressing structural violence in Colombia

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

Nature Tourism on the Colombian—Ecuadorian Amazonian Border: History, Current Situation, and Challenges

Nature Tourism on the Colombian—Ecuadorian Amazonian Border: History, Current Situation, and Challenges

“Fests of Vests”: The Politics of Participation in Neoliberal Peacebuilding in Colombia

Conceptualizing Community-based Environmental Peacebuilding in Cesar, Colombia

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