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Commentary

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.

Jul 17, 2017
Commentary

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.

Apr 28, 2017
Commentary

Bringing FARC in from the Cold

The announcement of a preliminary peace accord by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Colombian government is not receiving public support. Most Colombians manifest a strong desire for peace but reject the possibility that crimes committed in the name of revolution should receive amnesty.

Oct 28, 2015
Report

Building Special Operations Partnerships

Building the capacity of Afghan special operations forces (SOF) is a key goal of the U.S. and its coalition partners. An analysis of partnering practices from case studies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Colombia helps identify best practices to benefit the development of Afghan SOF, as well as partnerships beyond Afghanistan.

Jul 31, 2015
News Release

News Release

Addressing Mexico's Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations Will Require Coordinated Effort

Mexico is not like any other case characterized by "warlordism," resource insurgency, ungoverned spaces, and organized crime. Despite the lack of a perfectly analogous case, Mexico stands to benefit from historical lessons from countries facing similar challenges.

May 5, 2014
Report

Addressing Mexico's Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations Will Require Coordinated Effort

Mexico is not like any other case characterized by “warlordism,” resource insurgency, ungoverned spaces, and organized crime. Despite the lack of a perfectly analogous case, Mexico stands to benefit from historical lessons from countries facing similar challenges.

May 5, 2014
Report

Report

Mexico Is Not Colombia: Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations — Supporting Case Studies

Although there is no perfectly analogous case to Mexico's current security situation, historical case studies may offer lessons for policymakers as they cope with challenges related to violence and corruption in that country.

May 5, 2014
Commentary

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.

Apr 8, 2013
Journal Article

Journal Article

Resource Constraints and Educational Attainment in Developing Countries: Colombia 1945-2005

The author investigates the extent to which secondary and higher education supply constraints affected aggregate educational attainment in Colombia for cohorts born between 1945 and 1981.

Jan 1, 2012
Dissertation

Dissertation

Developing Stability: Community-Driven Development and Reconstruction in Conflict-Affected Settings

Tests the hypothesis that development and reconstruction actors can feasibly implement sound development and reconstruction across a relatively wide spectrum of conflict, but varying levels and natures of violence can affect its delivery.

Nov 4, 2011
Report

Report

From Insurgency to Stability: Volume II: Insights from Selected Case Studies

This book examines six case studies of insurgencies from around the world to determine the key factors in the successful transition from counterinsurgency toward stability.

Sep 7, 2011
News Release

News Release

Latin American Cocaine Trade Persists Despite Gains Made by U.S. Efforts

Efforts by the United States to combat Latin American cocaine smugglers have disrupted drug supplies and captured key cartel leaders, but they have not significantly reduced the region's overall narcotics trade.

Jun 15, 2011
Report

Latin American Cocaine Trade Persists Despite Gains Made by U.S. Efforts

Efforts by the United States to combat Latin American cocaine smugglers have disrupted drug supplies and captured key cartel leaders, but they have not significantly reduced the region's overall narcotics trade.

Jun 15, 2011
Journal Article

Do Colleges Cultivate Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Writing and Interpersonal Skills?

We investigate how much value college enrollment adds to students' critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills, and the role college inputs play in developing these competencies, using data from a 2009 collegiate assessment pilot study in Colombia.

Jan 1, 2011
Journal Article

Journal Article

Are Educational Vouchers Only Redistributive?

It is unclear if vouchers increase educational productivity or are purely redistributive, benefiting recipients by giving them access to more desirable peers at others' expense. To examine this, the authors study an educational voucher programme in Colombia which allocated vouchers by lottery.

Aug 1, 2010
Commentary

Commentary

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.

Oct 19, 2009
Journal Article

Journal Article

Prime Numbers Doped: How Two Plants Wreak Havoc on the Countries That Produce and Consume Them--And Everyone in Between

No abstract is available for this document.

Jan 1, 2009
Journal Article

Journal Article

Education Vouchers in Colombia

This chapter presents evidence on the impact of a voucher program implemented in 1991 in Colombia. Specifically, the analysis is centered on the mechanism by which the program increased learning outcomes.

Jan 1, 2009
Report

Report

Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency (COIN) Operations

Six historic counterinsurgency operations are examined to determine which tactics, techniques, and procedures led to success and which led to failure, with the hope that U.S. counterinsurgency operations in the future can learn from past lessons.

Aug 17, 2007
Report

Terrorist Groups Teach Each Other Deadly Skills

Terrorist groups around the world with different ideologies and from different religious and ethnic backgrounds have improved their effectiveness by teaching each other deadly skills such as bomb-making and guerilla warfare techniques.

Mar 15, 2007

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