Afirmaciones y negaciones

To date, the growing body of literature about Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) has focused primarily on questions of policy design. It has widely neglected the beneficiaries of policy and their lives beyond DDR programmes. The present study intends to balance this shortcoming by systematically describing the individual perspective of ex-combatants. Through a series of 62 interviews with former Colombian paramilitaries, the themes that are central to their lives are identified. The selection of the interviewees and the interview analysis draw on grounded theory. The goal of...

"Analyzes the structural process of the economic opening begun in 1990. Unlike past economic liberalizations, this process is not contingent upon availability of hard currency, but obeys a long-term economic strategy designed to stimulate growth. The process is deployed across several fronts in addition to international trade, among them, renewed exchange rate and fiscal policy, financial and tax reform, foreign investment incentives and new labor laws. The book offers background for sector and industry leaders, and a complete bibliography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

The author details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to her native Colombia, where, as a senator, she went up against the powerful drug cartels.

"The Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular, a well-known Colombian research center, coordinated analysis for this work as part of a multi-cultural project organized by the Asociación Peruana de Estudios y Investigaciones para la Paz. Investigates the culture of violence including its impact on daily life, the media, and the economy, as well as its relationship with narcotics and organized crime. Contributors are well-established scholars"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.