Might the Keys to Peace Open the Doors to Extractivism?: Reflections on Colombia's Post-Conflict Extractive Economy

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Author(s): Richard Clayton Doughman (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 27
Source title: Handbook of Research on Transitional Justice and Peace Building in Turbulent Regions
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Fredy Cante (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)and Hartmut Quehl (Felsberg Institute, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9675-4.ch022

Keywords: Ethics and Social Responsibility / Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities

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The present paper explores what the ongoing peace talks between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército Popular (FARC-EP) may mean to Colombia's growing extractive economy. Militarization during the decades-long conflict and the spike in rural, state and paramilitary violence under former President Alvaro Uribe Vélez's (2000-2008) have left an unequal land structure favorable to resource extraction by foreign multinational corporations. Concessions for mining and oil exploration now cover a large percentage of Colombian territory, and the policy environment has become ever more welcoming to foreign capital. While armed conflict has opened new territories for resource exploitation, the instability it has created could deter long-term foreign investment. This paper hypothesizes that current President Juan Manuel Santos's pursuit of peace with the FARC-EP aims to enhance conditions for intensified resource extraction in Colombia in consonance with the regional trend toward a recolonization of Latin America's natural commons.

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