Rights In Colombia Research Articles

Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights in Colombia. Edited by Christopher Welna and Gustavo Gallón. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 472p. $37.50.

Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights in Colombia. Edited by Christopher Welna and Gustavo Gallón. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 472p. $37.50.

Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Colombia ‐ Edited by Welna, C. and Gallón, G.

Bulletin of Latin American ResearchVolume 29, Issue 1 p. 119-120 Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Colombia - Edited by Welna, C. and Gallón, G. Christopher Abel, Christopher Abel UCLSearch for more papers by this author Christopher Abel, Christopher Abel UCLSearch for more papers by this author First published: 30 November 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2009.00345_12.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume29, Issue1January 2010Pages 119-120 RelatedInformation

Defending human rights in Colombia

The author describes a fact-finding visit to Colombia by a group of UK lawyers in August 2008. The author is a Law Society Council Member, member of the Law Society's International Human Rights Committee with responsibility for Colombia, Director of Pro Bono at the College of Law, and an Associate Professor. Article by Sara Chandler published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Communicative action and human rights in Colombia. When words fail

By the 21st century, in most of Latin America a phased combination of international and civil society pressure has produced notable if incomplete human rights reform. Yet in Colombia, continuing assassinations, kidnappings, forced displacement, and torture have received limited international attention and met with a checkered state response. This essay will argue that the symbolic structure of the violations and political environment in Colombia, above and beyond material and institutional constraints, diminish civil society’s impact and state responsiveness. Communicative action and its failures are the key to the persistence of abuse and lag in international response in Colombia. Specifically, we will trace problems in the definition of rights, identification of victims, legitimacy claims of the state, discourse of causal attribution, and transnational communication dynamics.

Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights in Colombia. Edited by Christopher Welna and Gustavo Gallón. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 455. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $37.50 paper.

Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights in Colombia. Edited by Christopher Welna and Gustavo Gallón. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 455. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $37.50 paper. - Volume 64 Issue 4

Peace, democracy, and human rights in Colombia

is home to the longest-running guerilla war in this hemisphere, a war that has evolved into a multisided conflict. Why has Colombia's internal war become so entrenched? Why have peace efforts failed to produce durable agreements? Why has Colombia's long-standing democracy experienced such glaring failures? Who should be held accountable for the violence suffered by the Colombian people? Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights in Colombia addresses these pressing questions and delves deeply into the underlying politics and bedrock human rights issues in Colombia. Authored by leading Colombian and U.S. scholars, the chapters examine Colombia's attempts at negotiating peace, the weakening of political institutions, patterns of violence, and human-rights politics. Contributors also consider the influential role played by the United States and the impact of drugs on politics. For scholars, this timely collection provides a theoretical understanding of human rights violations, corruption, political fragmentation, and reform. Policy makers will find careful analyses and debate about policy outcomes and alternatives, as well as recommendations for action to protect rights, strengthen democracy, and pursue peace. Students will find a route to understanding the history and dynamics of Colombia's contemporary challenges of human rights, democracy, and peace.

Dilemmas on Motherhood and Social Activism in Times of War

In this essay, we discuss issues of motherhood and political identity through a woman's civil war experience based on clinical consultations by the first author. Her experience involved trauma and the restructuring of her life in her community's social dynamics. We analyze her experience through a narrative and feminist lens to discuss issues of motherhood and political identity. We explore how some women involved in human rights in Colombia have been forced to transform their lives in order to adapt to the ever-changing nature of the armed conflict group's demands. We discuss issues of identity in this woman's role as mother, community leader and worker within the social context of war by analyzing the discrepancies that women experience in their daily lives. We conclude that the contradictory demands she faced from the guerillas, the military and the paramilitary, made it untenable for her to be simultaneously a mother and a community organizer.

Protecting Indigenous Rights in Colombia

Much research has examined Colombia's armed conflict, yet only recently has the oppression of indigenous peoples been recognized. Although the Colombian Constitution legally enshrined the rights of...

Institutions, Military Policy, and Human Rights in Colombia

In the past 20 years the people of Colombia have experienced increasing social and political violence. This political violence reached extreme levels during the administration of President Ernesto Samper (1994-1998), as 15,000 Colombians became victims of political killings (Bland, 1998:10). A central part of this violence has been the counterinsurgency war being waged by the government against well-armed guerrilla armies, with noncombat killings related to this war generally exceeding killings in combat. Throughout this war, the Colombian government has been able to maintain its system of competitive elections and relative control over the armed forces and actually broadened its democracy with a new constitution in 1991. How are we to explain this apparent contradiction? How has the civilian leadership' maintained its control over the state in the face of increasing social instability and violence? Why has the military been content with the power that it wields within this system? In order to answer these questions I examine military policy2 over the past 15 years, arguing that understanding Colombia's power structure and its relationship with the United States are central to understanding that policy. The distribution of power within a political system and the institutions that operate to regularize and maintain this distribution define the opportunities and constraints that guide, limit, and trigger individual or class action (Barrow, 1993: 14).

Implementing Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Colombia

Implementing Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Colombia

Introduction

The problem of diversity for modern nation states is examined in analyses of legislative and indigenous efforts to reframe indigenous rights in Colombia. Crucial questions are raised about the shift in the terms of debate from territory to “ethnic difference”and the problems negotiating between local, pan‐indigenous groups and the state. The difficulties of implementing legal changes that are ambiguously phrased are discussed, and/or the potential for complicating existing constitutional guarantees for indigenous rights and authority. This paper, and the concluding comparative commentary, develop the broader significance of these problems for future discussions of citizenship, human rights and the complexity of power in modern nations.