Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War
Abbey Steele, "Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War"
English | ISBN: 1501713736 | 2017 | 264 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1501713736 | 2017 | 264 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Democracy and Displacement in Colombia’s Civil War is one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws on her own original field research as well as on Colombian scholars’ work in Spanish to provide an expansive view of the country’s political conflicts. Steele shows how political reforms in the context of Colombia’s ongoing civil war produced unexpected, dramatic consequences: democratic elections revealed Colombian citizens’ political loyalties and allowed counterinsurgent armed groups to implement political cleansing against civilians perceived as loyal to insurgents.
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