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Violent Extremism

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Understanding Violent Extremism, 'Blockships,' VMT Fee: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on firsthand accounts of violent extremism, lessons from the recent blockage in the Suez Canal, and if a federal Vehicle Miles Travel fee could replace the gas tax.
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Apr 2, 2021

Refugees

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Colombia's Trailblazing Model for Refugees
Colombia recently announced it will give temporary protection status to a million undocumented Venezuelan refugees, with permission to live and work in the country for 10 years. In doing so, it created a new model for managing its own refugee situation and perhaps others elsewhere.
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Mar 26, 2021
Newsweek
Krishna B. Kumar @kbkumar_, Shelly Culbertson @SC_Culbertson, et al.
Violent Crime

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A Colombian Survivor's Crusade to Strengthen Punishment for Acid Attacks
Acid attacks, one of the most extreme forms of violence against women and girls, can have devastating consequences. Officials could address this problem by making it tough to get dangerous chemicals, punishing perpetrators, and helping survivors.
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Jul 17, 2017
The RAND Blog
Mahlet Atakilt Woldetsadik
Cocaine

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Mixed Messages: Is Cocaine Consumption in the U.S. Going Up or Down?
Data lags and the elimination of the ADAM program complicate estimates of U.S. cocaine consumption. New users who haven't yet developed cocaine dependence are also a factor. It may be prudent to start planning for an increase in heavy use even before all of the evidence is in.
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Apr 28, 2017
Brookings - Up Front
Beau Kilmer @BeauKilmer, Gregory Midgette
Colombia

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Bringing FARC in from the Cold
The announcement of a preliminary peace accord by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government is not receiving public support. Most Colombians manifest a strong desire for peace but they reject the possibility that crimes committed in the name of revolution should receive amnesty.
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Oct 28, 2015
Foreign Policy Concepts
Arturo Munoz
Special Operations Forces

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Special Ops Global Whack-a-Mole
A new model for our nation's special forces could follow the approach used in Colombia and the Philippines, where special forces planned ongoing campaigns that use numerous advisory, civil affairs, and informational activities to address those governments' weaknesses in providing security and ending conflicts.
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Apr 8, 2013
USA Today and CFR
Linda Robinson
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Prime Numbers: Doped
The illicit drug trade is the ultimate value-added chain. As cocaine and heroin make their perilous journeys from the fields of Colombia and Afghanistan to markets in U.S. and European cities, each border crossed and each trafficker involved adds dollars to a price, write Beau Kilmer And Peter Reuter.
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Oct 19, 2009
Foreign Policy
Beau Kilmer @BeauKilmer, Peter Reuter
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The Americas: Colombia's Rebels Talk Peace but Make More War
Colombia's friends, primarily the U.S., should be prepared to provide sustained and adequate support to the Colombian armed forces, not just for drug eradication, as is the case with the current policy, but to restore the capacity of the Colombian state to defend itself against forces that seek to overthrow it.
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Jul 13, 2001
Wall Street Journal
Angel Rabasa
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Violence Unraveling the Fabric of Society
Threats to democracy and stability in the Andean region of South America could confront the United States with its most serious security crisis in this hemisphere since the Central American wars of the 1980s.
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Jun 17, 2001
San Diego Union-Tribune
Angel Rabasa
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A Confounding, Complex Tragedy
Without external assistance, Colombia cannot defeat the guerrilla-gangster Minotaur that consumes it. It is in our national interest to help. At the same time, it is necessary that we fully comprehend the harsh realities we and our Colombian allies face.
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Jun 17, 2001
San Diego Union-Tribune
Brian Michael Jenkins @BrianMJenkins

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The Biden administration's lack of a competitive economic strategy, not just in Oceania but throughout the Indo-Pacific, is providing China with unique opportunities to leverage its Belt and Road Initiative to deepen trade, investment, and infrastructure development. Chinese economic overtures tend to be successful, given that Pacific Island countries are overwhelmingly small and impoverished.

Derek Grossman

Senior Defense Analyst

Source: Foreign Policy

While neurodivergent diagnoses are not automatically disqualifying from Army service, any new recruit who reveals a diagnosis jumps through hoops to serve. Some described having to prove that their diagnoses do not impede their ability to serve, which puts the burden on an eighteen-year-old to prove a negative for which the Army has no assessment criteria.

Cortney Weinbaum

Senior Management Scientist

Source: Modern War Institute (West Point)

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Colombia

Understanding Violent Extremism, 'Blockships,' VMT Fee: RAND Weekly Recap

Colombia's Trailblazing Model for Refugees

A Colombian Survivor's Crusade to Strengthen Punishment for Acid Attacks

Mixed Messages: Is Cocaine Consumption in the U.S. Going Up or Down?

Bringing FARC in from the Cold

Special Ops Global Whack-a-Mole

Prime Numbers: Doped

The Americas: Colombia's Rebels Talk Peace but Make More War

Violence Unraveling the Fabric of Society

A Confounding, Complex Tragedy

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