In a new reportThe Ties That Bind: Colombia and Military-Paramilitary Links, Human Rights Watch accused specific brigades and commanding officers in the Colombian military of collaborating with paramilitaries who are committing ...

Despite a growing body of literature on how environmental degradation can fuel civil war, the reverse effect, namely that of conflict on environmental outcomes, is relatively understudied. From a theoretical point of view ...

Curbaradó and traces of a curse, is a 29-minute documentary that shows clearly what happened with the oil palm project. This project was established monoculture in this population Choco by paramilitary violence and ...

Anti-press violence in Colombia’s Bajo Cauca is an inherent part of the structures, which underpin the region’s alternative social (dis)order. Through ethnographic interviews with four members of Colombia’s neo-paramilitary ...

Some general considerations on the association between paramilitarism and politics and on the challenges for democracy, arising from the interference of armed actors in electoral processes, are presented in the first part ...

This article on the war economics of the paramilitary phenomena in Colombia, establishes a perspective of analysis on the interference of the phenomena in the economy of the nation as a whole, defining the possible actors ...

In most studies on civil wars, determinants of conflict have been hitherto explored assuming that actors involved were either unitary or stable. However, if this intra-group homogeneity assumption does not hold, empirical ...