M. Berdal, E. Wood, Julia Bleckner, N. Lahoud, William Reno, Carrie Manning
{"title":"Chapter One: Thematic Essays","authors":"M. Berdal, E. Wood, Julia Bleckner, N. Lahoud, William Reno, Carrie Manning","doi":"10.1080/23740973.2017.1311538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23740973.2017.1311538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":126865,"journal":{"name":"Armed Conflict Survey","volume":"226 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122833175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter Two: Maps, Graphics and Data","authors":"R. D. Alzate","doi":"10.1080/23740973.2016.1168986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23740973.2016.1168986","url":null,"abstract":"15 December 2015: Negotiators announce a deal on the fourth point of the agenda: reparations for victims and transitional justice. 01 October 2015: FARC’ leader Rodrigo ‘Timochenko’ Londoño orders all of the group’s members to cease military training. 23 September 2015: Government and FARC reach a preliminary agreement on transitional justice and the establishment of a special tribunal. 20 July 2015: FARC starts a new unilateral cease re. 25 June 2015: A FARC attack on 8 June against a section of the Transandino oil pipeline causes the country’s ‘worst environmental damage in ten years’, says the government. 22 May 2015: A government airstrike kills 26 FARC ghters in Cauca Department. In response, FARC suspends its unilateral cease re. 15 April 2015: Eleven Colombian soldiers are killed during a FARC ambush in Cauca. President Santos ends the moratorium on airstrikes. 20 December 2014: FARC’s unilateral cease re starts. 30 November 2014: FARC frees General Ruben Dario Alzate, whose capture had caused the government to interrupt peace talks. 17 November 2014: President Juan Manuel Santos announces the suspension of the peace talks after FARC captures a Colombian general in Choco Department. 16 May 2014: Negotiators in Havana announce that a deal has been reached on the third item on the agenda, regarding drug traf cking and the cultivation of illegal plants. May 2014","PeriodicalId":126865,"journal":{"name":"Armed Conflict Survey","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131547763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter Eight: Latin America","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/23740973.2016.1168993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23740973.2016.1168993","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout 2015, corruption and organised crime caused severe security problems and political instability in Central America’s ‘northern triangle’, comprising El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The resignation and imprisonment of Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, who was implicated in a corruption scandal, caused a shift in his country’s political environment. Meanwhile, criminal violence assumed troubling new forms in El Salvador, where the gangs intensified their coordinated armed campaign against the government. As a consequence, the country recorded 6,670 homicides in the year, or more than 18 per day. This was a rise of 70% from 2014, and the largest increase in El Salvador’s homicide rate in recent history. There were also 106 registered cases in which three or more people were killed in 2015, more than had taken place there in the preceding three years. In January 2015, the most prominent leaders of El Salvador’s two dominant maras (territorial gangs formed predominantly of young men) were returned to Key statistics 2014 2015","PeriodicalId":126865,"journal":{"name":"Armed Conflict Survey","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126951206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter Three: Middle East","authors":"Abdel Fattah al-Sisi","doi":"10.1080/23740973.2016.1168987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23740973.2016.1168987","url":null,"abstract":"As President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi strengthened his control of Egypt throughout 2015, the security situation in the country deteriorated significantly. Wilayat Sina (Sinai Province), an insurgent group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) in November 2014, posed a severe security threat, launching deadly attacks and challenging the security forces’ tenuous control over Sinai. Egypt concurrently faced a medium-level insurgency led by radicalised individuals linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. The complex security environment was used by the Sisi-led government as a pretext for restricting space for political participation. Many of the government’s policies, however, appeared to be slowly generating discontent and undermining the president’s support base.","PeriodicalId":126865,"journal":{"name":"Armed Conflict Survey","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130029689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}