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Results for armed conflict (colombia)
3 results foundAuthor: Mejia, Daniel Title: The War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking: An Economic Evaluation of Plan Colombia Summary: This paper provides a thorough economic evaluation of the anti-drug policies implemented in Colombia between 2000 and 2006 under the so-called Plan Colombia. The paper develops a game theory model of the war against illegal drugs in producer countries. We explicitly model illegal drug markets, which allows us to account for the feedback effects between policies and market outcomes that are potentially important when evaluating large scale policy interventions such as Plan Colombia. We use available data for the war on cocaine production and trafficking as well as outcomes from the cocaine markets to calibrate the parameters of the model. Using the results from the calibration we estimate important measures of the costs, effectiveness, and efficiency of the war on drugs in Colombia. Finally we carry out simulations in order to assess the impact of increases in the U.S. budget allocated to Plan Colombia, and find that a three-fold increase in the U.S. budget allocated to the war on drugs in Colombia would decrease the amount of cocaine that successfully reaches consumer countries by about 17%. Details: Brighton, UK: Households in Conflict Network, The Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, 2008. 57p. Source: HiCN Working Paper 53: Internet Resource: Accessed August 28, 2012 at http://www.hicn.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wp53.pdf Year: 2008 Country: Colombia URL: http://www.hicn.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wp53.pdf Shelf Number: 126125 Keywords: Armed Conflict (Colombia)Cocaine (Colombia)Costs of CrimeDrug Trafficking (Colombia)Drugs and Crime (Colombia)Evaluative StudiesWar on Drugs (Colombia) |
Author: Oppenheim, Ben A. Title: Learning How (Not) to Fire a Gun: Combatant Training and Civilian Victimization Summary: What is the relationship between the type of training combatants receive upon recruitment into an armed group and their propensity to abuse civilians in civil war? Does military training or political training prevent or exacerbate the victimization of civilians by armed non-state actors? While the literature on civilian victimization has expanded rapidly, few studies have examined the correlation between abuse of civilians and the modes of training that illegal armed actors receive. Using a simple formal model, we develop hypotheses regarding this connection and argue that while military training should not decrease the probability that a combatant engages in civilian abuse, political training should. We test these hypotheses using a new survey consisting of a representative sample of approximately 1,500 demobilized combatants from the Colombian conflict, which we match with department-level data on civilian casualties. The empirical analysis confirms our hypotheses about the connection between training and civilian abuse and the results are robust to adding a full set of controls both at the department and at the individual level. Details: Brighton, UK: Households in Conflict Network, The Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, 2011. 35p. Source: HiCN Working Paper 110: Internet Resource: Accessed August 28, 2012 at http://www.hicn.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wp110.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Colombia URL: http://www.hicn.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wp110.pdf Shelf Number: 126126 Keywords: Armed Conflict (Colombia)Civil War (Colombia)Civilians, Victimization (Colombia)Crime Survey |
Author: Andreu-Guzman, Federico Title: Criminal Justice and Forced Displacement in Colombia Summary: The crime of forced displacement has been a widespread practice in Colombia's internal armed conflict for several decades. However, forced displacement cannot be reduced to an inherent or unintended effect of the conflict. The armed actors in the Colombian armed conflict - the army and its paramilitary groups, on one hand, and the guerrilla groups, on the other - have used the practice of forced displacement of civilian populations as part of their military strategies to take control of or maintain a presence in certain territories. This paper examines how the criminal justice system in Colombia addresses the forced internal displacement of civilians. Details: New York: International Center for Transitional Justice, 2012. 22p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 11, 2014 at https://www.ictj.org/sites/default/files/ICTJ-Brookings-Displacement-Criminal-Justice-Colombia-CaseStudy-2012-English.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Colombia URL: https://www.ictj.org/sites/default/files/ICTJ-Brookings-Displacement-Criminal-Justice-Colombia-CaseStudy-2012-English.pdf Shelf Number: 132437 Keywords: Armed Conflict (Colombia)Civilians, Victimization (Colombia)Forced Displacement |