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Private Security and Paramilitarism in Colombia: Governing in the Midst of Violence
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Titel: | Private Security and Paramilitarism in Colombia: Governing in the Midst of Violence |
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2017
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Zusammenfassung: | The article examines the links between paramilitary groups and the Colombian state within a context of pervasive violence. Colombia represents a particularly interesting case as high-intensity violence is accompanied by the preservation of a relatively strong institutional framework. Most interpretations of this relationship consider it to be either a sign of state weakness or a centralized strategy to outsource violence. Taking a different stance, the paper argues that the existence of paramilitary groups compels us to analyze government through practices vis-à-vis the treatment of violence. A policy linking private security and counterinsurgency, crafted in the early 1990s and known as Convivir, provides an illustration of this approach. |
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Format: | E-Book |
Quelle: | SSOAR Social Science Open Access Repository |
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Veröffentlichungsversion begutachtet (peer reviewed) In: Journal of Politics in Latin America ; 9 (2017) 3 ; 27-48 |
Sprache: | Englisch |