Empresas en el conflicto armado: aportes a la construcción de la paz en Colombia

Empresas en el conflicto armado: aportes a la construcción de la paz en Colombia
Author: Julián Tole Martínez
Publisher: U. Externado de Colombia
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9587907795

Esta obra colectiva es el resultado del esfuerzo de investigadoras (es) y profesoras (es) de diversas instituciones académicas, quienes buscan repensar y evidenciar la participación de las empresas no solo en el marco de un conflicto armado de más de 50 años. también en la construcción de paz. Así, pese a centrase la mayoría de los aportes de investigación en el conflicto colombiano. algunas reflexiones de los autores permiten analizar experiencias de otros países en estos escenarios, como el caso sudafricano, lo que enriquece la investigación sobre el casi invisible y poco discutido papel de la em-presa en los conflictos armados. Las diferentes investigaciones académicas llevan al lector a entender cuándo las empresas participan como víctima y sufren las consecuencias de la guerra en sus actividades u operacionales económicas; o cuándo se con-vierten en victimarios y son cómplices o determinadores de las violaciones de los derechos humanos o del derecho internacional humanitario constituyendo alianzas con los grupos armados ilegales, o simplemente se beneficia de dichas violaciones para obtener ventajas en sus actividades: sin olvidar. cuando las empresas son un "gestor de paz' al asistir a las comunidades y tomar acciones encaminadas a la prevención de la violencia o contribuyen a reparar las violaciones cometidas y proteger los derechos humanos de la población en los territorios de la guerra. Los diferentes artículos narran la transición de ese rol durante el conflicto al llamado posconflicto. Otro aspecto que se destaca en esta obra colectiva es la presencia de diferentes perspectivas jurídicas y de otros ámbitos de las ciencias sociales. lo cual se evidencia en los dos grandes ejes temáticos: El primero, tiene como título: 'Las empresas en los conflictos armados. Lecciones aprendidas del Acuerdo de Paz-, y se centra en la discusión que existe alrededor de los diversos roles de los actores empresariales en medio de situaciones de conflicto armado no internacional. El segundo eje. titulado: 'Las empresas y la justicia, la verdad, la reparación y la no repetición. Transición del conflicto armado al 'posacuerdo' colombiano'. aborda el gran desafío del posconflicto. cómo hacer responsable o criminalizar al sector empresarial como terceros en el conflicto colombiano. Con estas dos grandes divisiones, este libro pretende exponer los retos, pero también los beneficios de incluir a todos los actores sociales en la construcción de paz. En definitiva, se destaca a lo largo de la obra el compromiso de la academia en la defensa del derecho a la paz, intenta cada contribución tener una mirada optimista que apuesta por una nueva cultura empresarial, que propone la transformación de sus actividades económicas se erija en los derechos humanos y en el derecho internacional humanitario, donde las empresas que operan en Colombia se involucren directamente en generar las condiciones para una paz estable y duradera.

Identity in Narrative

Identity in Narrative
Author: Anna De Fina
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2003-10-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729612X

This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and chronicles of their border crossings into the United States. Embracing a view of identity as a construct firmly grounded in discourse and interaction, the author examines and illustrates the multiple threads that connect the local expression and negotiation of identity to the wider social contexts that frame the experience of migration, from material conditions of life in the United States to mainstream discourses about race and color. The analysis reveals how identities emerge in discourse through the interplay of different levels of expression, from implicit adherence to narrative styles and ways of telling, to explicit negotiation of membership categories.

International Community Psychology

International Community Psychology
Author: Stephanie Reich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2007-07-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0387495002

This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015
Author: Geneva Declaration Secretariat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2015-04-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316414647

The 2015 edition of the Global Burden of Armed Violence provides a wealth of data relevant to security and the post-2015 sustainable development framework. It estimates that 508,000 people died violently - in both conflict and non-conflict settings - every year in 2007–12, down from 526,000 in 2004–09. This trend is visible in non-conflict settings, where the proportion of women and girls is also slightly reduced, from 17 to 16 per cent. Yet, the number of direct conflict deaths is on the rise: from 55,000 to 70,000 per year over the same periods. Firearms are used in close to half of all homicides committed and in almost one-third of direct conflict deaths. Nearly USD 2 trillion in global homicide-related economic losses could have been saved if the homicide rate in 2000–10 had been reduced to the lowest practically attainable levels - between 2 and 3 deaths per 100,000 population.

The Political Economy of War and Peace

The Political Economy of War and Peace
Author: Murray Wolfson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461549612

cancer n. any malignant tumor . . . Metastasis may occur via the bloodstream or the lymphatic channels or across body cavities . . . setting up secondary tumors . . . Each individual primary tumor has its own pattern . . . There are probably many causative factors . . . Treatment. . . depends on the type of tumor, the site of the primary tumor and the extent of the spread. (Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary 1996, 97) Let us begin by stating the obvious. Acts of organized violence are not necessarily of human nature, but they are endogenous events arising within the an intrinsic part evolution of complex systems of social interaction. To be sure, all wars have features in common - people are killed and property is destroyed - but in their origin wars are likely to be at least as different as the social structures from which they arise. Consequently, it is unlikely that there can be a simple theory of the causes of war or the maintenance of peace. The fact that wars are historical events need not discourage us. On the contrary, we should focus our understanding of the dimensions of each conflict, or classes of conflict, on the conjuncture of causes at hand. It follows that the study of conflict must be an interdisciplinary one. It is or a penchant for eclecticism that leads to that conclusion, but the not humility multi-dimensionality of war itself.

Tapirs

Tapirs
Author: Daniel M. Brooks
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1997
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9782831704227

Descended from a long and ancient lineage, tapirs are important tropical forest seed dispersers. However, today, all species of tapirs are threatened to various degrees by habitat destruction and hunting. This action plan was written with wildlife biologists, ecologists, administrators, educators and local conservation officials in mind and is aimed at those countries with tapir populations. It provides a brief natural history of each species and its objective is to aid in their conservation by catalyzing conservation action. In addition, it is hoped that the contents of the plan will stimulate further research into this fascinating group of animals.

Women's Writing in Colombia

Women's Writing in Colombia
Author: Cherilyn Elston
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-12-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319432613

Winner of the Montserrat Ordóñez Prize 2018 This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women’s writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country’s history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.

Failed Statebuilding

Failed Statebuilding
Author: Oliver Richmond
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300175310

Western struggles—and failures—to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. In this groundbreaking book, Oliver Richmond asks why statebuilding has been so hard to achieve, and argues that a large part of the problem has been Westerners’ failure to understand or engage with what local peoples actually want and need. He interrogates the liberal peacebuilding industry, asking what it assumes, what it is getting wrong, and how it could be more effective.

Anarchism in Latin America

Anarchism in Latin America
Author: Ángel J. Cappelletti
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1849352836

The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is the first book-length regional history ever published in English. With a foreword by the translator. Ángel J. Cappelletti (1927–1995) was an Argentinian philosopher who taught at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela. He is the author of over forty works primarily investigating philosophy and anarchism. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.