Inter and intrastate conflicts nexus: The Colombian Peace process, as a means to prevent interstate conflicts in South America and rethink regional security - Núm. 20, Enero 2017 - Revista Opera - Libros y Revistas - VLEX 844458852

Inter and intrastate conflicts nexus: The Colombian Peace process, as a means to prevent interstate conflicts in South America and rethink regional security

AutorSandra Montoya
CargoMaestría en Asuntos Internacionales, Universidad Externado de Colombia
Páginas5-33
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Abstract
e Colombian internal conict case pro-
vides useful scenarios, realities and dynamics
for nourishing the debate between those who
treat internal and interstate conicts 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 conict. 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 conict,
peace process, interstate conicts, 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/ Modicado: 26/04/2016/ Aceptado: 20/11/2016.
Para citar este artículo
Montoya Ruiz, S. (2017). Inter and intrastate conicts nexus: e Colombian Peace process, as a means to prevent
interstate conicts in South America and rethink regional security.  20, pp. 5-33.
: https://doi.org/10.18601/16578651.n20.02
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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 conicto armado interno colombiano
brinda escenarios, dinámicas y realidades que
permiten nutrir el debate entre quienes tratan
los conictos 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 conictos inter e intraestatales, y la
aplicabilidad de esta postura para el conicto
armado interno colombiano. El artículo re-
salta la importancia de incluir los fuertes
nexos entre los conictos 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: conicto armado colom-
biano, proceso de paz, conictos internos,
conictos interestatales, seguridad regional,
Estado, futuro compartido.
INTRODUCTION
Analyses concerning the occurrence of
interstate conicts in countries dealing with
active internal conict(s) have evolved slowly
over the last decades (Gleditsch, Skrede and
Schultz, 2008). Although a large body of
work on violence and conicts has accumu-
lated diverse approaches, they have tended
to treat the two levels of conict 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 conict case has chal-
lenged their assumptions for decades. Indeed,
this conict provides useful scenarios and
dynamics for nourishing the debate between
those who treat the two types of conicts as
totally independent phenomena and those
who argue the frequent links between internal
and interstate conicts. 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 conicts, and its applicability
to the Colombian intrastate conict. 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 conict, 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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