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The Battle for Peace
This is the comprehensive account of the long and difficult road traveled to end the fifty-year armed conflict with the FARC, the oldest guerrilla army in the world; a long war that left more than eight million victims. The obstacles to peace were both large and dangerous. All previous attempts to negotiate with the FARC had failed, creating an environment where differences were irreconcilable and political will was scarce. The Battle for Peace is the story not only of the six years of negotiation and the peace process that transformed a country, its secret contacts, its international implications, and difficulties and achievements but also of the two previous decades in which Colombia oscil...
Courting Turmoil and Deferring Prosperity
This volume is part of a recently completed research project at the World Bank that reviewed the macroeconomic experience of 18 developing countries from the mid-1960s. The period encompassed two oil shocks, two world recessions, a sharp rise in world interest rates, the debt crisis, and changes in exchange rate regimes. In this context, Colombia provides an almost unparalleled example of steady long-term economic growth despite external shocks, political crises, civil strife, reliance on a single, dominant commodity (coffee), and the rising importance of illicit drugs in the economy. 'Courting Turmoil and Deferring Prosperity' looks at how Colombia managed to avoid major prolonged economic ...
New Constitutionalism in Latin America
Latin America has a long tradition of constitutional reform. Since the democratic transitions of the 1980s, most countries have amended their constitutions at least once, and some have even undergone constitutional reform several times. The global phenomenon of a new constitutionalism, with enhanced rights provisions, finds expression in the region, but the new constitutions, such as those of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, also have some peculiar characteristics which are discussed in this important book. Authors from a number of different disciplines offer a general overview of constitutional reforms in Latin America since 1990. They explore the historical, philosophical and doct...
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Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 24 (2008)
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004249134).
La Constitución de 1991: viviente y transformadora
" La Constitución de 1991: viviente y transformadora es una invitación a la reflexión sobre el impacto de la Constitución de Colombia, que cumplió treinta años de vigencia, la segunda que dura más de tres décadas. Presenta un balance global de su vida, de su funcionamiento y de su impacto transformador en múltiples ámbitos de la vida nacional. La tesis fundamental que expone la Constitución de 1991, lejos de quedarse escrita, ha tenido una incidencia profunda que ha llevado a que Colombia sea hoy un país diferente al que existía antes de los años noventa del siglo XX. Algunos cambios que ha producido son evidentes, mientras otros no han sido tan visibles, pero son también muy ...
Humanismos en el siglo XXI ¿Qué humanismo para qué sociedad?
La universidad, en un sentido amplio, contribuye con su proyecto humanista al cultivo de la sociedad civil y de los ciudadanos que exige la crisis actual. Se trata de propiciar un escenario que nos permita avanzar desde la mera palabrería –a veces cómoda o indolente– hacia el pensamiento crítico comprometido y consecuente, y, de este modo, transitar desde la apatía hacia la solidaridad, desde la desafección hacia la confianza, desde la búsqueda de soluciones individuales hacia la construcción de nosotros incluyentes. Todo ello mediado por el diálogo social, esa actividad fundamental que puede ayudarnos a superar la polarización entre creencias pertinaces y a darles protagonismo a la palabra generosa, a la escucha profunda y a sus actuaciones consecuentes.
