What is political in the colombian civil war

The basic argument of the article controverts the idea that the low social representativeness and the interested motives of the armed actors disqualify them as political actors. It is supported by the friend/enemy Schmittian distintion to argue that a civil war is always political -independently of...

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Autores:
Uribe López, Mauricio
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2011
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/74902
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/74902
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/39379/
Palabra clave:
Guerra Civil
Carl Schmitt
Élites
Contrainsurgencia
Derecho de Gentes
Civil war
Carl Schmitt
elites
contrainsurgencia
International Law
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:The basic argument of the article controverts the idea that the low social representativeness and the interested motives of the armed actors disqualify them as political actors. It is supported by the friend/enemy Schmittian distintion to argue that a civil war is always political -independently of motives by the parties—, inasmuch as the intensity of enmity gives preference to the animus bel li over the animus furandi. The article points out —in concordance with the proposal of Stathis Kalyvas- that social representativeness of the contending parties is endogenous to the civil war and cannot be used as a previous criterion for its identification. The concealment of the Colombian civil war portrays the intention of exculpating the elites and the society.