DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

Highlight SDAI: Successful Reintegration Trajectories of Ex-Combatants in Colombia

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Description

In collaboration with researchers at ARN and academics at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, the proposed research has identified the need to better understand what constitutes a successful reincorporation trajectory contrasting inclusion and marginalisation of former combatants. The project will identify the individual socioeconomic determinants of successful reintegration as well as the spatial and institutional context in which former FARC combatants find themselves. Moreover, the reincorporation process includes the provision of seed funding for business projects, so-called "productive projects". The research also aims to better understand why some productive projects have been successful while others failed. Here too, we will consider individual and contextual factors. Apart from data held by the ARN, relevant regional and municipal level data are held by the Colombian National Planning Department, the Ministry of Defence, National Service of Employment, Ministry of Education, the Institute for Family Protection, and the Office of People Advocacy (Ombudsman Office). The research project aims to support information exchange between ARN and these relevant Colombian institutions, as well as strengthen the capacity within the ARN to analyse such nested data using spatial and network analysis techniques.

Objectives

The project aims to identify the individual, contextual and programmatic factors affecting the economic, political, and social reincorporation of former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)-rebel combatants in Colombia. The in-depth analysis will be primarily based on data held by the Colombian presidential agency for Reincorporation and Standardization (ARN), where these secondary data will be supplemented by geographical and governmental information focused on the location of reintegration process. The main objectives of the proposed research are: 1. To re-examine the trajectories of successful reincorporation as based on economic, social and political inclusion contrasted with marginalisation, or recidivism, based on reliance on distinct categories of violence (personal, criminal, and political). 2. To identify individual socioeconomic determinants of successful reincorporation trajectories of FARC ex-combatants. 3. To identify the spatial and contextual determinants of successful reincorporation trajectories of FARC ex-combatants. 4. To identify the process determinants, in particular the effects of so-called "productive projects" (seed funding for business projects), of successful reincorporation trajectories of FARC ex-combatants. 5. To compare and contrast the "reincorporation" trajectories of FARC ex-combatants with "special reintegration" of individually demobilised rebel fighters and "reintegration" of collectively demobilised paramilitary ex-combatants. These objectives of the project have been identified in collaboration with local partners, specifically the ARN and academics at Jorge Tadeo University in Bogotá, Colombia. Methodologically, the project will apply innovative methods, specifically spatial and network analysis, to the reincorporation and reintegration data. The project also will support the uptake of these methods via training workshops under the auspices of the Essex Summer School at the ARN and Jorge Tadeo Lozano University as well as at the University of Essex.

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Location

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Colombia

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