Could Colombia’s Peace Process Still Be Derailed?
By Aila M. Matanock and Natalia Garbiras Díaz. Colombia has almost succeeded in ending a fifty-year civil conflict…
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Tortoise Politics in the Time of the Hare: Long-Run Solutions to Social Conflict in Latin America
By Steven T. Zech for Denver Dialogues. All too often, “post-conflict” societies continue to confront challenges related to…
How Nonviolent Resistance Works: Factors for Successful Peacebuilding in Samaniego, Colombia
Guest post by Cécile Mouly, María Belén Garrido, and Annette Idler. Colombia is getting closer to ending the…
Legacy of Violence and Peru’s Politics: Activism Against Authoritarianism
By Devin Finn for Denver Dialogues. Electoral politics sometimes reflects the legacies of violent contestation a country has…
La Mano Dura: Lessons from El Salvador’s Security Sector Reform
By Gaëlle Rivard Piché for Denver Dialogues Security sector reform (SSR) is at the core of contemporary state-building…
Satisfaction Among Ex-Combatants After DDR
Guest post by Anup Phayal and Clayton Thyne. Recently there was news that after decades of fighting, the…
Sport, Nationalism, and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games: ‘War Minus the Shooting’?
By Timothy D. Sisk for Denver Dialogues Recent revelations by The New York Times of alleged state-involvement by…
Bridging the Academic-Policymaker Gap in Chile: A Conversation with Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues Discussions on bridging the academic-policymaker gap in international relations usually focus on…
Spoiler Alert: Combatant Fragmentation and the Colombian Peace Process
By Mike Findley, Alejandro Ponce de Leon, & Mike Denly. We just returned from fieldwork in FARC-controlled territories…
Terrorism, Spoilers, and the Barriers to Resolving Civil Wars
By Joe Young. For a change, the news out of Colombia is good. A seemingly endless civil war…