The fog of war: development, conflict narratives, and civilian victimisation in Colombia

Voyvodic, Clara

doi:10.1080/01436597.2024.2324969

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“…Actors motivated to quell opposition to extractive projects face few consequences for issuing threats to local leaders and communities given the high rate of impunity in Colombia. This is especially true where the active presence of armed groups provides perpetrators with plausible deniability of their involvement (Voyvodic 2024). With this in mind, supporters of extractive projects may issue threats whether or not a convenio is in place.…”

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“…Throughout the last three decades, opponents of social leaders have wielded what Clara Voyvodic calls the "fog of war"(Voyvodic 2024) or the context of Colombia's armed conflict as a weapon to delegitimize popular challenges to development and extractive projects. The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders denounced in 2010 the persistent stigmatization of social leaders through baseless accusations of their membership in non-state armed groups.…”

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State for Hire: Corporate-state security contracts in extractive zones

Gillooly,

Shenk

2024

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Activists and NGOs have long accused extractive companies and state security forces of colluding to suppress opposition to extractive projects, often via means of violence, sabotage, or repression around the world. Evidence of this practice, however, is harder to come by. This article investigates these linkages directly, using original data of contracts signed between various branches of the Colombian armed forces and judiciary bodies with extractive companies around issues of security. In its essence, these contracts allow private companies to contract out sectors or branches of the Colombian government to protect private installations or project infrastructure throughout the country. Our data sheds light on these specter-like agreements, and proves that the relationship between state forces and private companies can and are formalized. This allows us to directly observe what types of conditions might make their presence more probable and explore potential effects.

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