Who Undermines the Peace at the Ballot Box? The Case of Colombia

Pechenkina, Anna O.; Gamboa, Laura

doi:10.1080/09546553.2019.1676239

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“…Moreover, in additional model estimations (table A11 in the online appendix), we included a series of additional control variables that speak to a series of potential alternative explanations. In dialogue with Pechenkina and Gamboa (2019), we included a measure of exposure to attacks from the government (and its interaction with FARC attacks) to explore the role of government counterinsurgency efforts. In addition, we included attacks from the ELN (the second-largest guerrilla group active in the period of analysis), levels of land inequality, geographical characteristics (land area), and access to other natural resources (gemstones).…”

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“…1. See special issue edited by Flores and Vargas (2018) and articles by Pechenkina and Gamboa (2019), Matanock and García-Sánchez (2017), Masullo and Morisi (2019a), and Tellez (2019a, b).…”

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“…3.A recent exception is Pechenkina and Gamboa (2019), who explore the effects of insurgent and counterinsurgent violence on peace policy preferences. In the broader literature on exposure to wartime violence, some have explored the effects of different forms of targeting—indiscriminate or collective (Lupu and Peisakhin 2017; Rozenas et al 2017; Zhukov and Talibova 2018)—and types of warfare—symmetric and asymmetric (Krakowski 2020).…”

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“…21.Moreover, and considering Pechenkina and Gamboa 2019, we test the potential impact of the interaction between exposure to counterinsurgent actions (proxied through government attacks) and FARC violence (model 1 of table A11 in the online appendix). Even though the interaction has a statistically significant (p < 0.05) positive effect, the coefficients of exposure to both FARC and paramilitary/BACRIM attacks remain highly significant and in the expected direction.…”

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Who Shot the Bullets? Exposure to Violence and Attitudes Toward Peace: Evidence from the 2016 Colombian Referendum

Seguer¹,

Masullo²

2020

Lat Am Polit Soc

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Does exposure to violence affect attitudes toward peace? Civilians living in war zones see peace agreements as an opportunity to improve their security prospects. However, in multiparty conflicts, this does not automatically translate into support for peace. Support hinges on the interplay between which faction has victimized civilians in the past and which faction is sitting at the negotiation table. If civilians have been victimized by the group that is involved in the peace agreement, they will be likely to support peace. On the contrary, if they have been victimized by another faction, they will be likely to refrain from supporting peace if they believe that this can trigger retaliatory violence against them. This article explores this argument empirically in the context of the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC; both quantitative and qualitative data yield support to the study’s theoretical expectations.

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Who Shot the Bullets? Exposure to Violence and Attitudes Toward Peace: Evidence from the 2016 Colombian Referendum

Seguer¹,

Masullo²

2020

Lat Am Polit Soc

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“…Recent research on Colombia has, however, largely converged on the factors of exposure to conflict and political affiliation to explain public support for brokered peace and the candidates who champion it (Branton et al, 2019;Dávalos et al, 2018, Gallego, 2018Hazlett and Parente, 2020;Liendo and Braithwaite, 2018;García-Sánchez, 2017, Matanock andGarbiras-Díaz, 2018;Pechenkina and Gamboa, 2019;Tellez, 2019). Far less attention has been paid to mass attitudes towards specific TJ and DDR provisions or, especially, the political integration of ex-combatants.…”

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Pitfall to Peace: FARC’s Political Participation and Mass Support for Peace Talks in Colombia

Carlin

Love

McCoy

et al. 2020

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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Transforming armed groups into legitimate political actors is often considered an ideal way to settle armed internal conflicts. In democracies, the efficacy of such approaches depends on the public legitimacy that the citizenry grants them. How does the prospect of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC’s) political participation influence citizens’ support for the peace process? This study addresses this question by triangulating evidence from three separate studies: (1) regression analysis using face-to-face nationally representative survey data, as well as (2) a vignette experiment and (3) a conjoint analysis, both conducted online with national samples of Colombians. Though methodologically distinct, each analysis converges on a singular conclusion: mass support for the integration of ex-FARC guerrillas into democratic politics damaged support for negotiated peace, often to similar or greater degrees than mass support for transitional justice mechanisms. We suspect this reflects citizens’ fear of undermining democratic representation, the legitimacy of democratic institutions, and electoral integrity.

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The signing of the peace agreement in Colombia. Old wine in new skins: Implications for national security and organized crime

Badrán

2023

Trends Organ Crim

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Recent scholarship has seen the peace agreement between Colombian government and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) guerrillas a milestone in closing more than 50 years of internal armed conflict. Indeed, the traditional practice of subversive warfare between the two sides ended. However, this did not imply a true path to peacebuilding. The empirical and statistical evidence indicates the worsening of the conflict through the transformation of its practices and representations, into terrorism and transnational organized crime. This article contends that the FARC, as a political party, a new insurgent group, and a criminal actor, continues to have a main role.

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Who Undermines the Peace at the Ballot Box? The Case of Colombia

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Who Shot the Bullets? Exposure to Violence and Attitudes Toward Peace: Evidence from the 2016 Colombian Referendum

Who Shot the Bullets? Exposure to Violence and Attitudes Toward Peace: Evidence from the 2016 Colombian Referendum

Pitfall to Peace: FARC’s Political Participation and Mass Support for Peace Talks in Colombia

The signing of the peace agreement in Colombia. Old wine in new skins: Implications for national security and organized crime

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