TY - JOUR
T1 - Governing after FARC
T2 - environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia
AU - Johnson, McKenzie F.
AU - Rodríguez, Luz A.
AU - Quijano Hoyos, Manuela
N1 - This work was supported by a Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program Grant from NASA [Award Number 80NSSC22K0469], a seed grant from the ACES Office of International Programs at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a seed grant from Vicerrector\u00EDa de Investigaciones at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Funders were not involved in the study design; collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in writing the manuscript; or in the decision to submit the article for publication. We acknowledge and thank our research participants, who shared their valuable time and insights with us. The experiences and knowledge of these social leaders directly shaped our research approach and findings. We would also like to thank two anonymous reviewers and the editor for constructive comments that improved earlier versions of the manuscript.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized by trans-societal links that foster social cohesion. Employing data from the Amazonian Department of Caquetá, we argue that the Government of Colombia is pursuing a peacebuilding approach that impedes opportunities to forge an inclusive social order. Instead, it has forcibly integrated frontier communities to advance an extractive peace that perpetuates longstanding patterns of resource violence. This generates a negative peace or “antagonistic integration” wherein peacebuilding creates trans-societal links without reducing violent conflict or increasing social cohesion.
AB - We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized by trans-societal links that foster social cohesion. Employing data from the Amazonian Department of Caquetá, we argue that the Government of Colombia is pursuing a peacebuilding approach that impedes opportunities to forge an inclusive social order. Instead, it has forcibly integrated frontier communities to advance an extractive peace that perpetuates longstanding patterns of resource violence. This generates a negative peace or “antagonistic integration” wherein peacebuilding creates trans-societal links without reducing violent conflict or increasing social cohesion.
KW - Amazon
KW - Colombia
KW - Environmental peacebuilding
KW - deforestation
KW - substantial integration
KW - territorial peace
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U2 - 10.1080/03066150.2024.2326577
DO - 10.1080/03066150.2024.2326577
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85189637489
SN - 0306-6150
VL - 52
SP - 129
EP - 156
JO - Journal of Peasant Studies
JF - Journal of Peasant Studies
IS - 1
ER -