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Colombia: Introduction To A Special Issue Of Defence And Peace Economics
Autor
Brauer, Jurgen
Vargas, Juan F.
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Resumen
The set of articles for this special issue of Defence and Peace Economics grew out of J. Brauer’s stint as Visiting Professor of Economics at the Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, in the fall of 2009, where J. Vargas is a Professor of Economics. All articles in this special issue deal with the case of Colombia, a country that since its independence some 200 years ago might well be said never to have known a period of ‘nonconflict,’ certainly not in the past 50 or 60 years during which politically and criminally motivated violence has wracked city and countryside alike. All articles have been peer-reviewed, first at a day-long workshop with formal presentations, discussants, and debates held at the Universidad del Rosario on 16 November 2010, and for which we gratefully acknowledge and thank the sponsors at Rosario, and then via anonymous external peer review as well. Although specific to Colombia in their application, all articles carry messages that are relevant beyond Colombia’s specific case. This is by design: we wished not only to highlight the professional abilities of Colombian economists, but more importantly to pick topics, issues, ideas, and methods that would be relevant and could be adopted elsewhere.