The notion of conflict disruption is proposed as an addition to the established conflict
response framework of conflict management, resolution and transformation. Drawing on …

" Colombia's 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla sought to end fifty years of war,
and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society …

The Havana Peace Accords of 2016 sought to end five decades of internal conflict in
Colombia. As well as disarming the FARC, they promise to bring state institutions to …

This chapter examines peace communities' contributions to positive peace. It discusses how
they have exercised autonomy, used nonviolent strategies to reduce direct violence and …

This thesis studies officials in the government of Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos
(2012–2018), a liberal politician whose central policy was a peace process with the FARC …

Based on an ethnography in the Colombian border state of La Guajira, this article argues
that ethnographic research can challenge defaults to methodological nationalism, stark …

This thesis examines how public servants have experienced rapid state reform in Ecuador
since the country's 2008 Constitution which signalled unprecedented, radical change for the …

Zones of peace (ZoPs) began as geographically based communities of citizens seeking to
withdraw themselves from situations of violence in the midst of armed conflict. This definition …

This thesis explores the past and present geographies of dispossession and resistance of
the Afro-descendants of the Montes de María in the Colombian Caribbean, constructed and …

Estable y Duradera tiene mucho más que ver con el Estado, que con las FARC. Más allá de
desarmar a las FARC, el Acuerdo, y el discurso que lo rodea en ambas administraciones …