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Published in: openSecurityWhat role for a truth commission in Colombia?While a positive step in negotiations between warring parties, what are the limits of uncovering the dark truths of...
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Published in: openSecurityMilitary immunity: Colombia's moment of choiceWill Colombia force its military to face up to its past human rights abuses?
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Published in: openSecurityColombia: the year of peace?The unilateral ceasefire signed by the FARC last December is a historic and positive step towards a permanent peace,...
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Published in: openSecurityThe body of Colombian women is a battlegroundA catalogue of sexual violence has accompanied the armed conflict in Colombia. The peace talks must not brush it...
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Published in: openSecurityOrganized crime, Colombia's peace spoiler?Now that the main potential impediment to a peace deal–a change in government–is out of the picture, it is time to...
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Published in: openSecurityUncovering Colombia's systems of macro-criminalityWhile transitional justice initiatives have traditionally shied away from dismantling the system, Colombia's Justice...
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Published in: openSecurityDrugs and the peace process in Colombia: a moderate radical step
The third point of agreement reached in the Havana negotiations may finally pave the way for the gradual end to the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe national security blindspot in Colombia's FOI law
A new transparancy law guarantees Colombian citizens greater access to information on public spending, but...
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Published in: openSecurityCounting the cost of conflict
Casualty recording has redefined efforts to protect civilians in conflict, and provide aid and accountability to...
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Published in: HomeThe shadowy hijacking of Bogota’s democracyThe Santos regime finally (and illegally) removed one of the few honest politicians in Colombia—the democratically...
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Published in: openSecurityTruth is the legacy we want
An op-ed from six youth activists in countries where official truth seeking initiatives are underway or being...
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Published in: openSecurityBack to basics for Colombia's rebels
As on-going peace talks in Havana address narco-trafficking amidst Colombia's continued economic growth, remnants of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe US and Colombia: building an exportable model of securityThrough the laboratory of Plan Colombia, the US has developed its 'stabalization' model for counter insurgency...
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Published in: openSecurityTowards a lasting peace: reforming drug policy in Colombia
A group of experts offer 11 recommendations Colombian and FARC negotiators can use to address and reform drug policy...
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Published in: openSecurityUnderstanding the Colombia connection
An exclusive clip from the The Colombia Connection, a documentary that explores the history and human costs of US...
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Published in: openSecurityThe deadly wages of “free trade”
As armed paramilitary groups battle for control of the ports in Buenaventura, the growing violence and internal...
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Published in: openSecurityColombia's peace process: three challenges
As peace talks begin between the FARC and the Colombian government, military victory is still espoused as a final...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Patriotic March and the struggle for peace in ColombiaA powerful new political movement bringing rural and urban Colombian civil society onto a common platform poses the...
