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Conflict, poverty and marginalisation

Since the 1990s, the Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó communities have specifically been the target of violence and subsequent displacement.

Buying the present selling the future

Considerations from Greenaccord’s VIII International Forum on the Protection of Nature in Cuneo, Italy

Eradications and conflict in Colombia
While the coca farmer is treated as a criminal the road to peace in the Colombian countryside will remain closed.

Although more and more coca is being eradicated, production levels remain steady. According to the latest Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), published in March 2008, more and more coca is being eradicated in South America. Despite this, the total area sown has remained stable in the region, as has the total production in metric tons of cocaine. In the case of Colombia, 23 per cent more was eradicated in 2006 than in 2005.

FARC was niet de enige optie voor Tanja

Er zijn genoeg andere linkse organisaties in Europa die zich met Colombia bezighouden. Tanja Nijmeijer zou in haar drang om de Colombiaanse armen te helpen geen andere keus hebben dan zich bij FARC aan te sluiten. Het tegendeel is waar.

On Politics and Drugs: A Look at the Recent Events
Varata una inaccettabile legge di amnistia per i gruppi armati pace da caricatura
Varata una inaccettabile legge di amnistia per i gruppi armati pace da caricatura
Useful Narcoterrorism
Forward Operating Locations in Latin America

This issue of Drugs & Conflict explains the background to and operation of the US Forward Operating Locations (FOLs) in Ecuador, El Salvador and Aruba/Curacao, established since 1999.

Breaking the Impasse

This issue of Drugs & Conflict attempts to outline the possibilities for a breakthrough in the current impasse of the current international drug control regime.

A Failed Balance

This Drugs & Conflict debate paper elucidates the analysis TNI contributed to a high-level international policy conference to evaluate 25 years of Alternative Development.

Merging Wars

With the new international context of the war against terrorism, the war on drugs moves centre stage as well. While drugs and terrorism are now shoved together to demonise the ‘evil’ enemy, reality is the victim. Blending the two wars to one seriously endangers the advances made to find a solution to the drug problem.

Fumigation and Conflict in Colombia

The second issue of our series is dedicated to the controversial topic of Colombia’s aerial fumigation of coca and opium poppy fields.

Europe and Plan Colombia

The first issue of the Drugs & Conflict Debate Papers is devoted to the controversies that have arisen around Plan Colombia.