The presence of protests, sometimes during violent conflict and civil war, across the globe, seems to contradict the common view that civil war and protests are mutually exclusive episodes and do not belong to a continuum. Instead, peaceful – and less peaceful – protests can coincide with...

This article analyzes the evolution of paramilitary forces in Colombia, and how under successive efforts from the Colombian government to tackle problems related to the lack of state presence in the country (particularly the country-side) there have been successive bullwhip effects around those...

Colombia can be regarded as the longest running civil war in the world. However, the country can also be seen as an example of successful peace initiatives and failed peace attempts; a series of lessons have been learned in regards to peace building and reconciliation. The current peace process...

This paper presents the first phase of a work in progress which aims at building a System Dynamics simulation model of the theory of the Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto. This theory proposes that the explanation for the fail of capitalism in Latin America should be looked in the informal...