Armed Actors’ Responses to Civilian Demands in Three Colombian Peace Territories
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ISBN: 978-1-78769-406-4, eISBN: 978-1-78769-405-7
Publication date: 7 October 2019
Abstract
This chapter examines the considerations weighed by armed actors in responding to civilian demands in three Colombian peace territories, where residents have engaged in civil resistance against armed violence and negotiated with armed actors to reduce such violence. It does so mainly on the basis of data from fieldwork, including interviews with former or current members of armed groups who operated in the areas under study, and other actors. We find that armed actors weighed political, security, economic and normative considerations when faced with civilian demands and that the armed actors’ relative dependence on civilians regarding these four aspects influenced these actors’ responses.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Ecuador for the grant received to conduct this research. We also thank our research assistant, Jaime Giménez, for his valuable assistance, and Juan Masullo for his useful comments. Finally, we could not have written this chapter without the information provided by our interviewees, some of whom did so at considerable risks. We are indebted to them.
Citation
Mouly, C., Delgado, E.H. and Garrido, M.B. (2019), "Armed Actors’ Responses to Civilian Demands in Three Colombian Peace Territories
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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