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The End of the Armed Conflict in Colombia: A Multiple Causal Factor Explanation
Author(s) -
Valenzuela Pedro
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/pech.12286
Subject(s) - armed conflict , latin americans , citizen journalism , internal conflict , government (linguistics) , political science , political economy , development economics , sociology , law , economics , politics , philosophy , linguistics
This article attempts to explain the decision by the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (FARC) guerrilla movement to bring to an end the longest internal armed conflict in Latin America. It does so by analyzing changes in interparty, intraparty, and contextual factors.