Inter and intrastate conflicts nexus: The Colombian Peace process, as a means to prevent interstate conflicts in South America and rethink regional security
Autor | Sandra Montoya |
Cargo | Maestría en Asuntos Internacionales, Universidad Externado de Colombia |
Páginas | 5-33 |
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Abstract
e Colombian internal conict case pro-
vides useful scenarios, realities and dynamics
for nourishing the debate between those who
treat internal and interstate conicts as discon-
nected or totally independent phenomena and
those who argue the frequent links between
them. is policy paper is situated in the lat-
ter school of thought, and from that angle I
shall argue the usefulness of perceiving the
nexus between intrastate and interstate con-
icts, and its applicability to the Colombian
internal conict. e paper highlights the
importance of taking into account the strong
nexus in order to prevent international dis-
putes that put regional security at risk; it also
suggests that the current Colombian peace
process represents an historic opportunity
for Colombia –and a great challenge for the
Colombian society– while at the same time
being an opportunity for thinking about a
shared future in the South America region,
which challenges the Colombian state and its
performance at the international level.
Key words: Colombian internal conict,
peace process, interstate conicts, regional
security, state, shared future.
* Maestría en Asuntos Internacionales, Universidad Externado de Colombia. Docente e Investigadora, Centro
de Investigaciones Socio-jurídicas, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Católica de Colombia (Colombia). Grupo de
Investigación “Persona, instituciones y exigencias de justicia”. sjmontoya@ucatolica.edu.co; politologa85mruiz@
gmail.com
Recibido: 1/03/2016/ Modicado: 26/04/2016/ Aceptado: 20/11/2016.
Para citar este artículo
Montoya Ruiz, S. (2017). Inter and intrastate conicts nexus: e Colombian Peace process, as a means to prevent
interstate conicts in South America and rethink regional security. 20, pp. 5-33.
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Sandra Montoya Ruiz
LOS NEXOS ENTRE CONFLICTOS INTER
E INTRAESTATALES: EL PROCESO DE
PAZ EN COLOMBIA COMO MEDIO PARA
PREVENIR CONFLICTOS INTERESTATALES
EN SURAMÉRICA Y REPENSAR LA
SEGURIDAD REGIONAL
Resumen
El conicto armado interno colombiano
brinda escenarios, dinámicas y realidades que
permiten nutrir el debate entre quienes tratan
los conictos interestatales e internos como
fenómenos desconectados o completamente
independientes, y aquellos que argumentan
frecuentes nexos entre ambos. Este artículo
se sitúa en la segunda postura, y desde allí se
argumentará la utilidad de percibir los nexos
entre los conictos inter e intraestatales, y la
aplicabilidad de esta postura para el conicto
armado interno colombiano. El artículo re-
salta la importancia de incluir los fuertes
nexos entre los conictos para la prevención
de disputas internacionales que pongan en
riesgo la seguridad regional; así mismo, sug-
iere que el actual proceso de paz colombiano
representa una oportunidad histórica para el
país –que desafía fuertemente a la sociedad
colombiana–, y, al mismo tiempo, representa
una oportunidad para pensar en un futuro
compartido en la región suramericana, que
desafía al Estado colombiano y su desempeño
en el plano internacional
Palabras clave: conicto armado colom-
biano, proceso de paz, conictos internos,
conictos interestatales, seguridad regional,
Estado, futuro compartido.
INTRODUCTION
Analyses concerning the occurrence of
interstate conicts in countries dealing with
active internal conict(s) have evolved slowly
over the last decades (Gleditsch, Skrede and
Schultz, 2008). Although a large body of
work on violence and conicts has accumu-
lated diverse approaches, they have tended
to treat the two levels of conict as discon-
nected phenomena (Gleditsch et al., 2008).
However, there is a growing interest in the
frequent connections between both levels,
in particular after the Cold War period. In
contrast to the initial very realist approaches,
the Colombian internal conict case has chal-
lenged their assumptions for decades. Indeed,
this conict provides useful scenarios and
dynamics for nourishing the debate between
those who treat the two types of conicts as
totally independent phenomena and those
who argue the frequent links between internal
and interstate conicts. is policy paper is
situated in the latter school of thought, and
from that angle I shall argue the usefulness
of perceiving the nexus between intrastate
and inter-state conicts, and its applicability
to the Colombian intrastate conict. us,
the paper highlights the importance of tak-
ing into account the strong nexus in order
to prevent international disputes that put
regional security at risk.
After a brief description of this nexus,
and how its characteristics are applicable in
the Colombian conict, the discussion will
move to consider the meaning of these nd-
ings in preventing the likelihood of interstate
disputes in South America. I shall particularly
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