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15 - Countering Violent Extremism through Narrative Intervention

For a Decentering of the Local Turn in Peacebuilding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

James Meernik
Affiliation:
University of North Texas
Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt
Affiliation:
University of North Texas
Mauricio Uribe-López
Affiliation:
EAFIT University (Medelin, Coloumbia)
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Summary

Since the 1960s Colombian public universities have served as a stage for the violent enactment of dissent and resistance and have become one of the many theaters of the internal armed conflict. The images of armed hooded militias parading on university campuses, throwing explosives at the police, destroying public property, or interrupting the regular flow of academic life became part of the routine landscape of many public universities.

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As War Ends
What Colombia Can Tell Us About the Sustainability of Peace and Transitional Justice
, pp. 346 - 365
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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