The study documents how people living in poor urban communities in Colombia, perceive violence, and identifies, the … categories of violence affecting communities, the costs of different types of violence, the effect of violence on social capital … the prevention of violence, such as state security, and justice institutions, were the least trusted. Interestingly …

ten poor communities of Colombia discussed urgent problems facing their families and communities. They shared their … experiences, frustrations and hopes for improving their deteriorating livelihood prospects, the pervasive violence afflicting … in Colombia also includes proposals, developed by the communities, that they believe can bring real improvements to their …

violence in nineteenth-century Colombia was a technology for political elites to compete for the rents from power, and that … of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and … political institutions and violence are jointly determined. We take advantage of an experiment of history to examine the impact …

During the last decade, forced internal displacement in Colombia has been a growing phenomenon closely linked to the … the level of violence at the origin site is not only the dominant factor of displacement behavior, but also that in a …

This paper proposes a new identification strategy to estimate the causal impact of illicit drug markets on violence … municipalities that we use as an instrument to uncover the causal effect of illegal cocaine markets on violence. We find that a 10 … violence as different armed groups fight each other, the government and the civil population for their control and extraction …

This paper explores the importance of the risk of violence on the decision making of rural households, using a unique …), we develop a dynamic consumption model where economic risk and the risk of violence are explicitly included. Theoretical … violence and the presence of illegal crops on the decision to continue coffee production and on the percentage of the farm …

adversities. Using cross-sectional data from a household survey in Colombia and administrative data on crime and violence, we find … that a greater subjective feeling of scarcity (β=0.45, IC_95%:[0.082, 0.979]) and greater exposure to violence (β …

displacement, and intimate partner violence in two different conflict-affected settings: Colombia and Liberia. This paper draws on … partner violence. Displaced women in Colombia and Liberia have between 40 and 55 percent greater odds of experiencing past … population was comprised of women and girls. Displacement and conflict substantially heighten the risk of gender-based violence …

Policymakers can take actions to prevent local conflict before it begins, if such violence can be accurately predicted …. We examine the two countries with the richest available sub-national data: Colombia and Indonesia. We assemble two … decades of fine-grained violence data by type, alongside hundreds of annual risk factors. We predict violence one year ahead …