Colombia: The Displaced and the Forgotten

Fernando Espada

A chapter in The Humanitarian Response Index 2008, 2009, pp 160-167 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract “My grandmother was born during the Thousand Days War, my mother during The Violence. When I was born, at the beginning of the 1960s, the guerrilla army was in the process of rearming itself. Not even the oldest people in Colombia know what it means to live in peace. There have always been killings of peasants, displacement, and war. In Colombia, violence has always been a way of life. Changing this reality is very difficult.” The person who said this, a Colombian working for an international NGO, was neither a pessimist, nor an exception among the humanitarian actors working in the worst and longest humanitarian crisis in Latin America.The crisis in Colombia is a complex conflict, in which improvements, if any, are very slow.

Keywords: Displace Population; Displace People; Guerrilla Group; United Nations High Commissioner; Humanitarian Crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230584617_12

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