Demobilized rebels wait in line as they surrend their weapons at a military base in Tumaco, Colombia, Apr. 3, 2009. Some 11 rebels of the National Liberation Army, ELN, Colombia's second largest rebel group, surrendered to the army.
AP Photo
PAST EVENT
Bankruptcy, Guns, or Campaigns: Explaining Armed Organizations' Post-War Trajectories
Brown Bag Lunch
Series: International Security Brown Bag Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
October 1, 2009
12:15-2:00 p.m.
| Speaker: | Sarah Zukerman Daly, Research Fellow, International Security/Intrastate Conflict Programs |
Related Project: International Security
Description:
What happens to armed organizations after they sign peace accords? Why do they dissolve, return to war, or form non-violent political parties? This seminar addresses and seeks to explain this empirical variation in former armed groups' trajectories, using extensive micro-level data on the Colombian paramilitaries. In so doing, it seeks to contribute an organizational-level study of peace-building. The trajectories explored in this seminar fundamentally shape prospects for peace, state-building, and democratization, influence post-war patterns of human rights abuses, and impact the legalization of war economies.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
Contact:
ISP Program Coordinator
International Security Program,
79 John F. Kennedy St., Mailbox 53,
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Email: susan_lynch@hks.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-496-1981
Fax: 617-495-8963
Url: http://www.belfercenter.org/ISP/
