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Volatile Social Movements and the Origins of Terrorism
Although many scholars have studied terrorism, few scholars have ever studied terrorism from the aspect of its initial origins in social movements. Not only is research concerning this phenomenon outdated, but there has also been no consensus as to what causes terrorism. Many contemporary terrorist organizations were once social movements that formed for a specific purpose using nonviolent tactics to accomplish their agenda. Eventually, terrorist tactics became the method of choice for these once peaceful social movements. Volatile Social Movements and the Origins of Terrorism: The Radicalization of Change, by Christine Sixta Rinehart, focuses on why this transition occurred; why did a peace...
Counting the Dead
At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Winifred Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights professionals working there--nongovernmental activists, state representatives, and military officers. Drawing from the life stories of high-profile activists, pioneering interviews with military officials, and research at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Counting the Dead underscores the importance of analyzing and understanding human rights discourses, methodologies, and institutions within the context of broader cultural and political debates.
Global Secret and Intelligence Services II
Global Secret and Intelligence Services II Hidden Systems that deliver Unforgettable Customer Service Global Secret and Intelligence Services II Hidden Systems that deliver Unforgettable Customer Service First Edition 2006 Second Edition 2009 Third Edition 2014 Updated: UUTYG/TT5443 Note: Because of some special contents of this publication, some pages are in French, German and Italien The DEA in popular culture * The DEA.org (The Drug Enjoying Americans), a drug information site. * Gary Oldman played a corrupt DEA Agent in The Professional. * Luis Guzman and Don Cheadle play two DEA agents in the movie Traffic. * Vin Diesel plays a DEA agent in the movie A Man Apart. * Max Payne is a DEA agent in the video game series Max Payne. In the game, Max battles addicts of a fictional designer drug called Valkyr. * David Duchovny played a transvestite DEA agent, Denise/Dennis Bryson on the series, Twin Peaks. * Mary-Louise Parker finds out that her boyfriend is a DEA agent on the Showtime series "Weeds"
From Terrorism to Politics
How do terrorists become politicians? This book embraces a series of comparative case studies in order to examine important issues regarding the relationship between terrorism and political processes. It identifies the characteristics necessary for the transition from a 'terrorist' organization to a political party and situates this within broader debates about substantive ethical concerns motivating the distinction between legitimate politics and illegitimate violence. The volume offers a presentation of how some terrorist groups see the world in which they live. It also provides an understanding of how established democracies such as the US react to the phenomenon of the terrorist-politician transition. This is a useful resource for students and scholars of international relations, political ethics and comparative politics.
Forgotten Peace
"Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. In this book, Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history--including the most detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency in any language--Karl provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development, and memory formation in the 1950s and 1960s. Sweeping in scope, Forgotten Peace challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America."--Provided by publisher.
Territories of Conflict
This interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions.
Operación Marquetalia
En 1964 el Ejército de Colombia realizó un audaz ataque contra el enclave de las guerrillas comunistas de Tirofijo en Marquetalia al sur del Tolima. A pesar de que el plan de la Operación Soberanía incluía la participación activa de todos los ministerios y otras entidades del Estado, con el paso del tiempo y producto de la propaganda, la victoria militar del Estado se convirtió en derrota política Mientras no haya voluntad política integral complementada por compromiso y acción estratégica efectiva para contrarrestar la estrategia comunista de guerra revolucionaria en el terreno de los acontecimientos, será imposible derrotar en todos los aspectos de la dinámica de guerra revolu...
Colombia and the United States
Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military "aid" continues to have on the war torn-people of Colombia. Beginning with a brief history of Colombia, Murillo analyzes the complex forces driving Colombia's current decades-old guerilla war, U.S. involvement, media perceptions, and possible paths to peace. Whether it has been the U.S.-led war against "drug trafficking," the newly constituted "war against terrorism," or, as we have seen over the last two years, a convenient marriage of the two, the main effect has ...
Tirofijo: Los sueños y las montañas
El primer volumen Las vidas de Pedro Antonio Marín, Manuel Marulanda Vélez, Tirofijo, recoge su trayectoria desde la niñez, las influencias familiares, los años de formación, sus inicios en la vida guerrillera en el Sur del Tolima, la fundación de la llamada "república independiente de Marquetalia", y la terminación de la "Operación Marquetalia", en 1964. En este segundo volumen Tirofijo: los sueños y las montañas, desarrolla su concepción de construir una fuerza insurgente con características de un pequeño ejército, que tiene como origen la fundación de las Farc en 1966 y su desarrollo desigual hasta la década de los 80, cuando se firman en 1984, los Acuerdos de Paz y Tregu...
Orígenes sociales de los derechos humanos
El activismo de derechos humanos suele asociarse con el trabajo de organizaciones internacionales que buscan incidir en la manera en que los estados abusivos actúan en diferentes partes del mundo. En Barrancabermeja, Colombia, según sostiene Luis van Isschot en Orígenes sociales de los derechos humanos, la lucha por los derechos se ha dado de forma más orgánica y ha estado circunscrita a un ámbito local, como resultado de una larga historia de activismo civil y social. El autor analiza en profundidad las vidas de activistas locales en una zona de conflicto y enmarca sus experiencias en importantes cambios sociales que han moldeado a América Latina a lo largo del siglo XX. Creada por l...
