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Angelika Rettberg

Angelika Rettberg

PRIO Global Fellow

Bård Drange

Bård Drange

Doctoral Researcher

Borja Paladini Adell

Borja Paladini Adell

Practitioner in Residence

Covadonga Morales Bertrand

Covadonga Morales Bertrand

Department Manager (on leave)

Ernesto Cárdenas

Ernesto Cárdenas

Professor

Håvard Mokleiv Nygård

Håvard Mokleiv Nygård

Research Professor

Kristian Hoelscher

Kristian Hoelscher

Senior Researcher

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies

Michael Weintraub

Michael Weintraub

Senior Researcher

Sarah Zukerman

Sarah Zukerman

Research Assistant

Wenche Iren Hauge

Wenche Iren Hauge

Senior Researcher

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Rettberg, Angelika (2020) Colombia in 2019: The Paradox of Plenty, Revista de Ciencia Política 40(2): 235–258.
Rettberg, Angelika (2019) Peace-Making Amidst an Unfinished Social Contract: The Case of Colombia, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2019.1619655.
Oettler, Anika & Angelika Rettberg (2019) Varieties of reconciliation in violent contexts: lessons from Colombia, Peacebuilding. DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2019.1617029: 329–352.
Lemaitre, Julieta (2018) Humanitarian aid and host state capacity: the challenges of the Norwegian Refugee Council in Colombia, Third World Quarterly 39(3): 544–559.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Kristian Hoelscher (2017) The Reframing of the War on Drugs as a “Humanitarian Crisis”: Costs, Benefits and Consequences, Latin American Perspectives 44(4): 168–182.
Hoelscher, Kristian & Enzo Nussio (2016) Understanding Unlikely Successes in Urban Violence Reduction, Urban Studies 53(11): 2397–2416.
Lemaitre, Julieta & Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (2015) Shifting Frames, Vanishing Resources, and Dangerous Political Opportunities: Legal Mobilization among Displaced Women in Colombia, Law & Society Review 49(1): 5–38.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Julieta Lemaitre (2013) Internally Displaced Women as Knowledge Producers and Users in Humanitarian Action: The View from Colombia, Disasters 37(1): 36–50.

Book Chapter

Lemaitre, Julieta & Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (2019) From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: Reflections on Durable Solutions in the Postconflict Setting, in Bradley, Megan; James Milner; & Blair Peruniak, eds, Refugees' Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press (187–210).
Nasi, Carlo & Angelika Rettberg (2019) Colombia’s Farewell to Civil War, in I. William Zartman, ed., How Negotiations End: Negotiating Behavior in the Endgame. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (62–82).
Rettberg, Angelika (2019) The Colombian Private Sector in Colombia’s Transition to Peace, in Avant, Deborah; Marie Berry; Erica Chenoweth; Rachel A. Epstein; Cullen Hendrix; Oliver Kaplan; & Timothy Sisk, eds, Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence. Oxford: Oxford University Press (255–278).
Rettberg, Angelika & Jason Miklian (2019) From war-torn to peace-torn? Mapping business strategies in transition from conflict to peace in Colombia, in Miklian, Jason; Rina M. Alluri; & John Elias Katsos, eds, Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development. Abingdon: Routledge (110–128).
McFee, Erin & Angelika Rettberg (2019) Introducción: Contextualizando los Desafíos de la Implementación Temprana, in McFee, Erin; & Angelika Rettberg, eds, Excombatientes y acuerdo de paz con las FARC-EP en Colombia: Balance de la etapa temprana. Bogotá, Colombia: Ediciones Uniandes (1–17).
Barrios, Andrés; Juana García; Juan Carlos Montes; Angelika Rettberg & David Schnarch (2019) Sector privado y reintegración: Una mirada a la inclusión de excombatientes en la actividad productiva en Colombia, in McFee, Erin; & Angelika Rettberg, eds, Excombatientes y acuerdo de paz con las FARC-EP en Colombia: Balance de la etapa temprana. Bogotá, Colombia: Ediciones Uniandes (115–133).
Rettberg, Angelika; Ralf J. Leiteritz; Carlo Nasi & Juan Diego Prieto (2018) ¿Recursos diferentes, conflictos distintos? Un marco para comprender la economía política del conflicto armado y la criminalidad en las regiones colombianas, in Rettberg, Angelika; Ralf J. Leiteritz; Carlo Nasi; & Juan Diego Prieto, eds, ¿Diferentes recursos, conflictos distintos?: La economía política regional del conflicto armado y la criminalidad en Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes (3–46).
Rettberg, Angelika (2018) “Tomémonos un tinto”: café, conflicto armado y criminalidad en Colombia, in Rettberg, Angelika; Ralf J. Leiteritz; Carlo Nasi; & Juan Diego Prieto, eds, ¿Diferentes recursos, conflictos distintos?: La economía política regional del conflicto armado y la criminalidad en Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes (47–82).
Rettberg, Angelika & Juan Diego Prieto (2018) Conflicto crudo: petróleo, conflicto armado y criminalidad en Colombia, in Rettberg, Angelika; Ralf J. Leiteritz; Carlo Nasi; & Juan Diego Prieto, eds, ¿Diferentes recursos, conflictos distintos?: La economía política regional del conflicto armado y la criminalidad en Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes (135–192).
Rettberg, Angelika; Juan Camilo Cárdenas & Juan Felipe Ortiz-Riomalo (2018) Mismo recurso, diferentes conflictos: un análisis de la relación entre oro, conflicto y criminalidad en seis departamentos colombianos, in Rettberg, Angelika; Ralf J. Leiteritz; Carlo Nasi; & Juan Diego Prieto, eds, ¿Diferentes recursos, conflictos distintos?: La economía política regional del conflicto armado y la criminalidad en Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes (341–400).

Edited Volume

McFee, Erin; & Angelika Rettberg, eds, (2019) Excombatientes y acuerdo de paz con las FARC-EP en Colombia: Balance de la etapa temprana. Bogotá, Colombia: Ediciones Uniandes.
Rettberg, Angelika; Ralf J. Leiteritz; Carlo Nasi; & Juan Diego Prieto, eds, (2018) ¿Diferentes recursos, conflictos distintos?: La economía política regional del conflicto armado y la criminalidad en Colombia [Different resources, different conflicts? The political economy of armed conflict and crime in Colombian regions]. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes. Colección General.

Popular Article

Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Marianne Dahl; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård; Michael Weintraub & Abbey Steele (2019) Colombia’s historic peace agreement with the FARC is fraying. We talked to 1,700 Colombians to understand why, Washington Post, 7 August.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2015) An academic New Year’s resolution for Colombia: understanding continued gendered violence as a threat to positive peace, IntLawGrrls, 11 December.
Hauge, Wenche Iren (2009) Colombias fredskvinne [Colombia’s Woman of Peace], Bergens Tidende, 12 September.

Conference Paper

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2015) Actors, agendas and legal categories in post-war Colombia. Armed Non State Actors and Access to Health in Armed Conflict, presented at Armed Non State Actors and Access to Health in Armed Conflict, Oslo, 12.02.2015.

PRIO Policy Brief

Hauge, Wenche Iren (2020) A Neglected Agency: Female and Male Minors in DDR Processes, GPS Policy Brief, 2. Oslo: PRIO.
Hauge, Wenche Iren (2020) Guerrilla Babies: Gender and Pregnancy Policies of Armed Groups, GPS Policy Brief, 3. Oslo: PRIO.
Hoelscher, Kristian (2019) Business, Politics and Urban Peacebuilding in Colombia: The Case of Empresas Públicas de Medellín, PRIO Policy Brief, 12. Oslo: PRIO.
Kreft, Anne-Kathrin (2019) How Does Civil Society Understand Conflict-Related Sexual Violence? Perspectives from women activists in Colombia, GPS Policy Brief, 3. Oslo: PRIO.
Kreft, Anne-Kathrin (2019) ¿Cómo comprende la sociedad civil la violencia sexual relacionada con los conflictos? Perspectivas de mujeres activistas en Colombia, GPS Policy Brief, 3. Oslo: PRIO.
Rettberg, Angelika; Daniel Medina & Jason Miklian (2019) Corporate Strategies to Assist Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Colombia, PRIO Policy Brief, 1. Oslo: PRIO.
Rettberg, Angelika; Daniel Medina & Jason Miklian (2019) Estrategias empresariales para apoyar la construcción de paz en Colombia [Corporate Strategies to Assist Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Colombia], PRIO Policy Brief, 1. Oslo: PRIO.
Ryland, Reidun; Tora Sagård; Peder Landsverk; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård; Håvard Strand; Siri Aas Rustad; Govinda Clayton; Claudia Wiehler & Valerie Sticher (2018) The Effects of Ceasefires in Colombian Peace Processes, Conflict Trends, 7. Oslo: PRIO.
Gindele, Rebecca; Madhav Joshi; Louise Olsson; Jason Quinn; Elise Ditta & Rebecca Méndez (2018) Implementing the Final Colombian Peace Agreement, 2016–2018, GPS Policy Brief, 1. Oslo: PRIO.
Lemaitre, Julieta (2017) Humanitarian Aid in Relatively Strong Host States, PRIO Policy Brief, 6. Oslo: PRIO.
Miklian, Jason & Juan Pablo Medina Bickel (2016) ¿Cómo pueden las empresas ser constructoras de paz efectivas a nivel local? Evidencia de Colombia [How Businesses Can Be Effective Local Peacebuilders – Evidence from Colombia], PRIO Policy Brief, 27. Oslo: PRIO.
Miklian, Jason (2016) How Businesses Can Be Effective Local Peacebuilders – Evidence from Colombia, PRIO Policy Brief, 27. Oslo: PRIO.
Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv & Michael Weintraub (2016) Rejecting Peace? Legacies of Violence in Colombia, Conflict Trends, 4. Oslo: PRIO.
Ibáñez, Ana María (2009) Concentration of Rural Property in Colombia, PRIO Policy Brief, 5. Oslo: PRIO.
Gutiérrez Sanín, Francisco (2009) Extreme Inequality: A Political Consideration – Rural Policies in Colombia, 2002–09, PRIO Policy Brief, 4. Oslo: PRIO.
Saffon, Maria Paula & Rodrigo Uprimny (2009) Reparations for Land Dispossession and Distributive Justice in Colombia, PRIO Policy Brief, 6. Oslo: PRIO.
Uprimny, Rodrigo & Maria Paula Saffon (2007) Uses and Abuses of Transitional Justice Discourse in Colombia, PRIO Policy Brief, 6. Oslo: PRIO.

PRIO Paper

Joshi, Madhav; Myla Jabilles Leguro; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård; Stephen Oola & Matthew Hauenstein (2020) The Effect of COVID-19 on Peace Agreement Implementation, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Rustad, Siri Aas; Fredrik Methi; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård & Govinda Clayton (2020) The Strategic Use of Ceasefires in the Coronavirus Crisis, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Rettberg, Angelika; Daniel Medina & Jason Miklian (2019) Corporate Strategies to Assist Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Colombia, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Marianne Dahl; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård & Michael Weintraub (2018) Percepciones y vivencias en relación con el Acuerdo de Paz en Colombia, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Marianne Dahl; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård & Michael Weintraub (2018) Perceptions of and Experience with the Peace Process in Colombia, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Marianne Dahl; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård & Michael Weintraub (2018) Attitudes Towards the Implementation of the Colombian Peace Agreement in Mesetas, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Marianne Dahl; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård & Michael Weintraub (2018) Actitudes hacia la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz en Mesetas [Attitudes Towards the Implementation of the Colombian Peace Agreement in Mesetas], PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Marianne Dahl; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård & Michael Weintraub (2017) Actitudes hacia la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz en Tumaco [Attitudes Towards the Implementation of the Colombian Peace Agreement in Tumaco], PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Marianne Dahl; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård & Michael Weintraub (2017) Attitudes Towards the Implementation of the Colombian Peace Agreement in Tumaco, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.

Report - Other

Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Abbey Steele; Helga Malmin Binningsbø; Michael Weintraub; Christopher Fariss; Pablo Ruiz Hiebra; Pablo Ruiz Hiebra; & Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, eds, (2020) Luces y sombras de la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz en Colombia: Actitudes y percepciones en los territorios PDET [Lights and shadows of the implementation of the Peace Agreement in Colombia: Attitudes and perceptions in the PDET territories], PRIO-UNDP joint report. .
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Cuenca del Caguan y Piedemonte Caqueteño, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 1. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Montes de María, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 2. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Sierra Nevada - Perija, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 3. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Uraba Antioqueño, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 4. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Pacífico y Frontera Nariñense, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 5. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Pacífico medio, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 6. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Macarena - Guaviare, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 7. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Choco, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 8. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Sur del Tolima, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 9. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Sur de Cordoba, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 10. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Sur de Bolivar, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 11. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Putumayo, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 12. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Catatumbo, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 13. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Bajo Cauca y Nordeste Antioqueno, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 14. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Alto Patia - Norte del Cauca, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 15. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Erazo, Dayanna; & Tammy Singer (2020) Arauca, Iniciativa de medición de la percepción ciudadana sobre la implementación del proceso de paz: estado, retos y perspectivas, 16. Colombia: UNDP & PRIO.
Lemaitre, Julieta; Kristin Bergtora Sandvik; & Juliana Vargas Gómez (2014) Organización comunitaria y derechos humanos. La movilización legal de las mujeres desplazadas en Colombia. [Community Organization and Human Rights. Legal Mobilization of Displaced Women in Colombia.]10. Colombia: Universidad de los Andes (Justica Global).

Newsletter

Hansen, Julie Marie & Jenny Lorentzen (2017) Empowering Survivors of Sexual Violence in DR Congo, PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update, 2017: PRIO.
Lorentzen, Jenny & Julie Marie Hansen (2016) Integrating Gender into Foreign Policy, PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update, 2016: PRIO.
Hansen, Julie Marie & Jenny Lorentzen (2016) Gender and Inclusion in the Colombian Peace Process, PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update, 2016: PRIO.

Blog Posts

The Colombian Peace Process Effort and COVID-19

Posted by Pablo Ruiz on Friday, 15 May 2020

On 23rd March 2020 the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for a global ceasefire to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Given the ambition of Colombia’s peace agreement and the strong support of the international community for its implementation, it is worth asking: how is the pandemic affecting the peace ... Read more »

On the Front Lines of Sustaining Peace in Colombia

Posted by Borja Paladini Adell on Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Sustaining peace in Colombia Conflict-ridden societies, including –counterintuitively– those that have recently overcome violent conflict through a political settlement, are fraught with mistrust, polarisation, and resistance to change. The implementation of peace agreements is often the new arena where tension and controversy manifest themselves. In Colombia, for example, the recent ... Read more »

Safeguarding women after disasters: some progress, but not enough

Posted by Kristin B. Sandvik on Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Hundreds of Mozambicans were killed and thousands made homeless recently by Cyclones Idai and Kenneth. Almost immediately, there were reports of a sadly familiar story: women being forced to trade sex for food by local community leaders distributing aid. Globally, international organisations appear to be grappling with the issue more seriously than before. Yet reports about ... Read more »

Beyond Recognition to One, Ethical Reassurance to Many

Posted by Catalina Vallejo on Thursday, 13 October 2016

An award can be backward or forward looking; this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is both. By awarding this prize in a moment of crisis for the Colombian peace process, it not only serves as a recognition of past efforts made by individuals, but also rescues an agonizing process and truly ... Read more »

An Impossible Peace

Posted by Kalle Moene on Wednesday, 12 October 2016

The FARC and the Colombian government deserved to share this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Unfortunately, however, the prize was awarded to only one party. In general we are idiots if we let political correctness govern our views about how the world works. We confuse facts with latent sympathies – a ... Read more »

A Bold Choice for the Nobel Peace Prize

Posted by Kristian Berg Harpviken on Sunday, 9 October 2016

The award of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is a bold choice. It rewards President Santos of Colombia for his great political courage, and for his ability to think in a strategic, long-term and principled manner about what is needed to bring peace to his country. Santos is also a ... Read more »

Most Importantly a Nobel for the Colombian People and the Victims of the Civil War

Posted by Kristin B. Sandvik on Friday, 7 October 2016

The Norwegian Nobel Committee emphasizes that the award of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize to the Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos is not only a prize given in recognition of his own personal efforts to end the more than 50 year old civil war in the country, but that this ... Read more »

A Nobel for Colombian Peace Makers? Yes! (But to whom?)

Posted by Catalina Vallejo & Diego Marín on Thursday, 6 October 2016

In its current state, the Colombian peace process not only deserves but could in fact highly benefit from the symbolic effects that go hand in hand with being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. Recently, in a tight vote, Colombians said ‘No’ to supporting the peace agreement between the government and ... Read more »

An Academic New Year’s Resolution for Colombia: Understanding Continued Gendered Violence as a Threat to Positive Peace

Posted by Kristin B. Sandvik on Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Over the last decade, Colombia has been host to the world’s largest population of internally displaced people (IDP). In 2016, it is expected that the Colombian government and FARC will reach a peace agreement, marking the formal end of more than 50 years of civil war. It is widely recognized ... Read more »

Santos and Jiménez: Fraternal Enough?

Posted by Catalina Vallejo on Friday, 9 October 2015

Celebration. The best work for fraternity during the precedent year. Abolition of standing armies. The formation and spreading of peace congresses. Conferring the greatest benefit on (hu)mankind. These where the elements that Alfred Nobel had in his mind when he imagined a peace prize. These elements combined in extraordinary manners ... Read more »

From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: Transition from Humanitarian Crisis through Law Reform?

Posted by Kristin B. Sandvik & Julieta Lemaitre on Wednesday, 1 July 2015

What are the challenges of responding to displacement as a problem of transitional justice? In the Colombian context, pervasive violent conflict coexists with constitutional democracy. In recent years, the legal framework for dealing with internal displacement has been altered by the 2011 Victims’ Law. Based on newly published work on ... Read more »

Beyond Sexual Violence: Gendered Political Insecurity as a Threat to Peace

Posted by Kristin B. Sandvik & Julieta Lemaitre on Monday, 13 April 2015

Based on extensive field research in Colombia, our new article “Beyond Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice: Political Insecurity as a Gendered Harm” examines political insecurity as a specifically gendered harm that must be addressed in the ongoing Colombian transitional justice process. In a previous blogpost we described the tragic plight ... Read more »

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