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Measuring the Impact of Armed Conflict on Population Health: A Guide for Researchers
Abstract The humanitarian impact of armed conflict remains a significant international issue, with an estimated 2 billion people residing in fragile or conflict‐affected settings. Despite increasing attention and study of armed conflict and its impact on human populations, few studies have evaluated the methods necessary to assess such relationships ...
Maya Luetke +2 more
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Latin America: Terrorism Issues [PDF]
[Excerpt] For most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, threats emanating from terrorism are low. Terrorism in the region is largely perpetrated by groups in Colombia and by the remnants of radical leftist Andean groups.
Beittel, June S, Sullivan, Mark P
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Weaponizing Kinship: A Demographic Analysis of Bereavement in the Colombian Conflict
Abstract The ongoing Colombian armed conflict has produced widespread homicides and enforced disappearances, as armed actors used violence to terrorize communities and consolidate power. Family bereavement—one of the most pervasive and enduring consequences of this violence—remains critically understudied from a quantitative perspective.
Enrique Acosta +3 more
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FARC TERRORISM IN COLOMBIA A Clustering Analysis [PDF]
This paper applies clustering analysis to the Colombian armed conflict. Indeed, when applied to a FARC terrorist act database, this statistical procedure finds a natural clustering of the different FARC units according to the different types of terrorist
Andrés Arias, Hernán Maldonado
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After more than four years of negotiations the Colombian Government and the FARC have reached a historical peace agreement, signed on 26 September 2016 and, in a shocking turn of events, ultimately rejected in an up-or-down referendum held on 2 October ...
Francesca Capone
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ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt +4 more
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A geography of illicit crops (coca leaf) and armed conflict in Colombia [PDF]
Colombia is currently the world’s largest producer of coca leaf and the principal producer of opium poppies in the Americas; the plants are the basic raw materials used to produce cocaine and heroin.
Díaz, Ana María, Sánchez, Fabio
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The Power of Narrative: Semiotic Violence in Anti‐Gender Messages Online
ABSTRACT Anti‐gender campaigns frequently use the term ‘gender ideology’ to mobilize against progressive gender ideas. What are the dominant narratives about gender displayed by anti‐gender campaigns and to what extent are these messages characterized by semiotic violence?
Rebekka Kesberg, Liza Mügge
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En este texto se intenta analizar el curso del desarme de la guerrilla de las FARC-EP desde la firma del Acuerdo Final de Paz (AFP) hasta el final del mandato presidencial de Iván Duque, con esto se quiere dar una explicación causal de las fallas en la ...
Jorge Andrés Baquero Monroy
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Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
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