FARC TERRORISM IN COLOMBIA A Clustering Analysis

Andrés Arias () and Hernán Maldonado ()

No 2716, Documentos CEDE from Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

Abstract: This paper applies clustering analysis to the Colombian armed conflict. Indeed, when applied to a FARC terrorist act database, this statistical procedure finds a natural clustering of the different FARC units according to the different types of terrorist acts they commit and identifies the military hard core of the FARC. The facts revealed in this paper should be useful not only for future military strategies, but also to determine a better priorization and geographical allocation of the scarce military resources.

Keywords: Clustering; analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19
Date: 2004-02-01
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