{"product_id":"violence-in-colombia-19902000-9780842028707","title":"Violence in Colombia 19902000","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eViolence In Colombia provides students with a deeper understanding of the crisis facing Colombia today. The book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the oldest and largest guerrilla insurgency in the Americas and the emergence of a powerful paramilitary right. The decade also saw a dramatic rise in homicide, kidnapping, and human rights violations that made Colombia by far the most violent nation in the hemisphere. But the 1990s was also about negotiating peace. The decade began with negotiations between the government and some of the guerrilla groups that led to their demobilization and to the important reforms codified in the Constitution of 1991. It ended with another serious attempt at negotiating peace, a historic agreement between the government and the largest and most powerful of the guerrilla groups to put a range of social and economic reforms on the negotiating table. For many, the crisis in Colombia is understood in terms of the drug trade. To b\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccompanied by key documents on the current cycle of violence and revealing chapters by knowledgeable collaborators on drug trafficking and the national economy, violations of human rights, war, violence and gender, and social movements, this book is a benchmark in the literature on Colombian politics. Ideal for the classroom. -- Brian Loveman, San Diego State University\u003cbr\u003eFrom the dark labyrinth of Colombia come these ten remarkable essays—each a rare combination of professional objectivity and political engagement—to explain a nation in the 1990s that has been at war with itself for a half century. The complex interplay of today's actors, the State, the guerrillas, the paramilitaries, the drug traffickers, civil society, women and men who are the victims and the survivors of these wars, and now increasingly the U.S. government, is dramatically revealed in these pages. -- Herbert Tico Braun, University of Virginia\u003cbr\u003eAuthored by the most insightful Colombian intellectuals, this is an important, timely book that is essential to understanding the current crisis in Colombia and possible solutions. -- Catherine LeGrand, McGill University\u003cbr\u003eThe editors of this work are to be commended for crafting an important book that synthesizes the extant literature showing the historical continuities that line Colombia's violent past with the present. * Revista Iberoamericana *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Introduction: Problems of Violence, Prospects for Peace Chapter 2 Violence, Power, and Collective Action: A Comparison between Bolivia and Colombia Chapter 3 The Constitution of 1991: An Institutional Evaluation Seven Years Later Chapter 4 Drug Trafficking and the National Economy Chapter 5 The Equivocal Dimensions of Human Rights in Colombia Chapter 6 From Private to Public Violence: The Paramilitaries Chapter 7 Victims and Survivors of War in Colombia: Three Views of Gender Relations Chapter 8 Social and Popular Movements in a time of Cholera, 1977-1999 Chapter 9 The War on Paper: A Balance Sheet on Works Published in the 1990s Chapter 10 Waging War and Negotiating Peace: The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038798840151,"sku":"9780842028707","price":36.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780842028707.jpg?v=1750941477","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/violence-in-colombia-19902000-9780842028707","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}