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State building and conflict resolution in Colombia, 1986-1994
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State building and conflict resolution in Colombia, 1986-1994

Author: Harvey F Kline
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1999.
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During their presidencies, both Virgilio Barco Vargas (1986-90) and Cesar Gaviria Trujillo (1990-94) sought to end the long-running armed disturbance by the leftist guerillas, narcotics traffickers, and paramilitary groups who were controlling many parts of Colombia. Their attempts to use peaceful means - including indirect bargaining, changes to the constitution to increase democracy, and modifications in the
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Kline, Harvey F.
State building and conflict resolution in Colombia, 1986-1994.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1999
(OCoLC)607194177
Named Person: Virgilio Barco; César Gaviria Trujillo; Virgilio Barco; César Gaviria Trujillo
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Harvey F Kline
ISBN: 0817309438 9780817309435
OCLC Number: 39334772
Description: xviii, 240 p. : map ; 24cm.
Contents: Introduction: Attempts at Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 1986-1994 --
The Historical Context for Bargaining: The Weak Colombian State and the Emergence of Opposition --
Barco's Guerrilla Policy --
Barco's Drug Policy --
Self-Defense, Private Justice, and Paramilitary Groups: The Final Piece of the Jigsaw Puzzle --
Negotiations between the Government and the Guerrilla Groups --
Gaviria's Drug Policy --
The Gaviria Policy for Paramilitary Groups --
Changing the Colombian State: Constitutional and Judicial Reforms --
Conclusion: Assessment of Success.
Responsibility: Harvey F. Kline.
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During their presidencies, both Virgilio Barco Vargas (1986-90) and Cesar Gaviria Trujillo (1990-94) sought to end the long-running armed disturbance by the leftist guerillas, narcotics traffickers, and paramilitary groups who were controlling many parts of Colombia. Their attempts to use peaceful means - including indirect bargaining, changes to the constitution to increase democracy, and modifications in the judicial system to make it more effective in suppressing the country's lawbreaking elements - marked a strategic break with the government's 150-year reliance on force.

Funded by the United States Institute of Peace, Harvey Kline traveled to Colombia to collect data for this study. Kline researched printed sources unavailable in the United States and interviewed numerous government officials, politicians, and scholars to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of state building through conflict resolution.

Kline concludes that Barco's and Gaviria's efforts at conflict resolution were only partially successful and points to three major culprits: the lack of a tradition of peaceful conflict resolution in the country; the increased possibilities of conflict with urbanization and modernization; and the vast amount of money brought to the country by the drug trade. Finding no significant improvement in the lives of Colombians, Kline sounds a note of pessimism for Colombia's future.

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