Territorial peace and gold mining in Colombia: local peacebuilding, bottom-up development and the defence of territories

P Le Billon, MC Roa-García… - Conflict, Security & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The concept of territorial peace is at the core of the peace agreement signed by the
Colombian government and FARC guerrilla movement in 2016. Recognising the uneven …

“Fests of vests”: the politics of participation in neoliberal peacebuilding in Colombia

I Vélez‐Torres, K Gough, J Larrea‐Mejía… - Antipode, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Colombian Peace Agreement signed in 2016 was saluted internationally by
scholars, policy makers and practitioners for encompassing the concept of territorial peace …

[HTML][HTML] Between pacification and dialogue: Critical lessons from Colombia's territorial peace

JM Díaz, H Staples, JM Kanai, M Lombard - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
Colombia's peace process prioritised conflict-torn geographies ostensibly suffering from
historical state absence. We examine the origins and afterlives of this' territorial'peace using …

Resistance, repression and elite dynamics: Unpacking violence in the Guatemalan mining sector

AG Sveinsdóttir, M Aguilar-Støen, B Bull - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
Guatemala is one of the most mining conflict prone countries in the world, with
disproportionately high levels of violence accompanying the sector. Starting in the early …

Against the stream: Colombian zones of peace under democratic security

C Mitchell, C Rojas - Local peacebuilding and national peace …, 2012 - books.google.com
Colombia is one of the oldest armed conflicts in the world. For more than 60 years, war has
taken over many of its rural areas and, in recent years, its urban areas as well. Hand in hand …

[HTML][HTML] Frames of extractivism: Small-scale goldmining formalization and state violence in Colombia

C Kaufmann, M Côte - Political geography, 2021 - Elsevier
Colombia's economy largely relies on an extractivist logic that increasingly focuses on
industrial mineral extraction. The industry is regularly depicted as a means to bring …

Indigenous resistance to mining in post-conflict Colombia

DC Arbeláez-Ruiz - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Indigenous peoples' relationship with mining involves tensions and conflicts that intensify in
armed conflict and post-conflict environments. Studies of the intersection between mining …

[PDF][PDF] Peace and environmental protection in Colombia

L Morales - Proposals for Sustainable Rural Development. Inter …, 2017 - thedialogue.org
Armed conflict and the environment are deeply intertwined in Colombia—the war has
determined how land has been defined, occupied, and utilized. Given the weak state …

[HTML][HTML] Necropolitics, peacebuilding and racialized violence: The elimination of indigenous leaders in Colombia

K Ruette-Orihuela, KV Gough, I Vélez-Torres… - Political geography, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes the concept 'necropolitics of peacebuilding'to analyse how
contemporary geographies of peace and post-war violence are shaped by the articulation of …

Extracting justice? Colombia's commitment to mining and energy as a foundation for peace

JA McNeish - … Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
In this article critical consideration is given to the idea that natural resource extraction can
pay for peace and justice. The Colombia government claims that the mining and energy …