Colombia's Bold Gamble for Peace,

Abstract

Will the current peace process actually bring an end to decades of political violence in Columbia? Right now, that seems doubtful. Some fractions among the guerrillas have already rejected the peace process and have vowed to continue the armed struggle. They are the seeds of new guerrilla organizations. Some guerrilla leaders will find the political prizes sufficient to keep them in town, but not all will obtain power equivalent to the power they exercised in the guerilla armies. For some, the armed struggle has become a way of life, an enterprise--and one with a considerable cash flow. Facing the pedestrian and less rewarding tasks of civilian life, some will drift back to the mountains, to ordinary banditry, or to new guerilla organizations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA154940

Entities

People

  • B. M. Jenkins

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Crime
  • Criminals
  • Governments
  • Guerrilla Warfare
  • Law
  • Military Operations
  • Negotiations
  • Police
  • Political Systems
  • Security
  • Societies
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.