By Caroline O. N. Moser, Cathy McIlwaine
Regardless of sustained advancements in its social and monetary symptoms over the last a number of many years and its wealthy inventory of typical and human assets, Colombia is still stricken by violence. The very excessive point of violence displays a number of components, together with the country's simmering 50-year-old civil conflict, the rise in armed clash, the increase in city and rural crime, and drug cartel-linked violence. because the govt struggles to arrive peace agreements with guerilla and paramilitary teams, political violence and armed clash were the first focuses of political analysts and civil society teams alike. The perceptions of violence by means of humans dwelling in terrible groups have obtained less realization. This record addresses the problem by means of supplying the result of a participatory examine of violence performed in low-income city groups in Colombia.
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In Rosario, Girón, where tolerance of drug consumption is low, one-third of all violence problems were identified as drug related. In contrast, in Pórtico, Medellín, where drug consumption was widespread but tolerance levels were very high, only 5 percent problems identified were related to drug consumption. 1). These findings reinforced the frequency findings and revealed the inter-relationship among different types of problems. In three communities (Embudo and 14 de Febrero, Bogotá; and Rosario, Girón), drug-related problems were perceived as most important.
G. governments or public officials) by "principals" (parliament, judiciary system, the people) weaken substantially. Often the result is corruption, a phenomenon that has received substantial attention in the 1990s, particularly in the development community. Corruption has a demoralizing effect on the public (and on honest officials in the public sector institutions), eroding social creditability in institutions. In Habermas's framework, corruption, and, to an extent, violence, can be understood from several angles.
Looking ahead in the early 21st century it seems that political and ethnic violence will, unfortunately, be prevalent phenomena in several regions of the world. The historian Eric Hobsbawn (1999) has recently pointed out that a decade after the dissolution of the Soviet block, the process of state-building in the former soviet republics and former Yugoslavia is still an unfolding process. Needless to say, those processes are far from being peaceful and orderly events. The Andean region of Latin America also turned very volatile in the late 20th century, a trend that is bound to pervade into the early 21st century.