Shaping peacebuilding in Colombia : international frames and spatial transformation / Catalina Montoya Londoño.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montoya Londoño, Catalina, author.

Series:

Spaces of peace, security and development.

Spaces of peace, security and development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building--Colombia--History--21st century.

Peace-building.

Peace-building--Colombia--International cooperation.

Peacekeeping forces--Colombia--History--21st century.

Peacekeeping forces.

Colombia--Social conditions--1970-.

Colombia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This book explores the involvement of the international community in peacebuilding efforts in Colombia since 2016. In particular, it examines how interventions were framed in order to promote and sustain their involvement, and questions whether these frames reflected reality within Colombia.

Contents:

Intro

Front Cover

Shaping Peacebuilding in Colombia: International Frames and Spatial Transformation

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

What this book is about

Administration changes

Online subsidies

International actors: antecedents and focus

Relevance

Methodological approach

Organization of the book

Limitations and contribution of the work

1 Theoretical Assumptions: Framing Projections in International Scenarios

The notion of framing

Frame projection in international scenarios: public and mediated diplomacy

The digital landscape and information subsidies

Mediated diplomacy's contribution to peace: beyond national interests and image building

Public diplomacy and potential for peace in interstate conflicts

Multilateral peacebuilding in intrastate conflicts and mediated public diplomacy

Communication and peacebuilding through information subsidies

2 Spatial Framing and Methodological Choices

Peace studies and space

Critical geography and peacebuilding

Notions of space in Colombia

The analysis

The sample

3 Peacebuilding Efforts in Colombia: National Agendas and Management of International Cooperation

Approaches to peace

The peace process with FARC

Peace process and the ELN

Security

Development

Justice and human rights

Governmental coordination of international cooperation

4 Peacebuilding Efforts in Colombia: Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation

The USA

Canada

Sweden

The United Kingdom

The EU and the Trust Fund for Post-Conflict

The United Nations

The World Bank

The Inter-American Development Bank

MAPP/OEA

5 Local Views Regarding International Actors.

FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)

Killings of social leaders and human-rights defenders

Implementation of the agreement on the ground

Calls for the reform to the peace process by the opposition

Extradition to the USA and the war against drugs

Academic and expert commentators

Implementation of the peace agreement on the ground

Comments on extradition and the war against drugs

NGOs

The war against drugs

Former combatants and civil society take on international actors

6 International Actors' Framing of Peacebuilding Spaces

Negative comments (43 online subsidies, 98 references in NVivo)

Positive comments (22 online subsidies, 36 references in NVivo)

Negative comments (11 online subsidies, 23 references in NVivo)

Positive comments (4 online subsidies, 5 references in NVivo)

Negative comments (8 online subsidies, 18 references in NVivo)

Positive comments (3 online subsidies, 4 references in NVivo)

Negative comments (13 online subsidies, 28 references in NVivo)

Positive comments (11 online subsidies, 32 references in NVivo)

The European Union

Negative comments (20 subsidies, 33 references in NVivo)

Positive comments (9 subsidies, 13 references in NVivo)

Negative comments (68 subsidies, 109 references in NVivo)

Positive comments (29 subsidies, 48 references in NVivo)

Negative comments (5 online subsidies, 8 references in NVivo)

Positive comments (6 online subsidies, 15 references in NVivo)

Negative comments (8 online subsidies, 9 references in NVivo)

Positive comments (4 online subsidies, 4 references in NVivo)

MAPP/OEA.

Negative comments (29 online subsidies, 48 references in NVivo)

Positive comments (9 subsidies, 11 references in NVivo)

7 International Actors' Framing of Peacebuilding Agendas

Overall trends

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Peacebuilding Agendas

Socio-economic development

Economic development and food security

Rural development, trade and investment

Environment and development

Climate change and green growth for populations in environmentally sensitive areas affected by poverty and the armed conflict

Social fabric

Coexistence, reconciliation, recognition, empowering and social inclusion of vulnerable groups (Indigenous, children and young people, people with disabilities, LGBT communities) and gender equality

Media and communications

The role of media and communication for development and peace

Governance

Infrastructure and social services

Provision of infrastructure and public goods and services

Institutionalization and the rule of law

Land governance, restitution and formalization

Land management and planning, formalization of land and updating of cadastral systems

Human rights

Gender-based violence

Human rights and humanitarian aid

Public awareness of human rights and the rights of children and young people, women, Indigenous, afro-Colombian populations and rural communities affected by conflict

Human-rights defenders and social leaders

The peace process

Disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and prevention of recruitment

Accompanying and promoting FARC's disarmament process and assisting demobilization of children and teenagers.

Negotiation and implementation.

The revised peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC and its implementation, including the first point of integral rural development

Transitional justice

Inter-institutional coordination, policy design and implementation, and initiatives of truth, reconciliation, protection and redress for victims

Monopoly of force

Financial and technical assistance for post-conflict security

Mine clearance

Illegal economies

Fight against illegal drugs and mining

Appendix 2: Tables of International Actors' Framing of Peacebuilding Agendas

Agendas, number of subsidies and percentages (of total subsidies per actor)

Specified spaces linked to broader agendas

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jan 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5292-1173-5

1-5292-1172-7

OCLC:

1391383812