CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Suescun Pozas, Natalia Andrea |
|---|---|
| Title | The Colombian Land Restitution Case: Bringing Elite Capture into the Debate |
| Summary | This paper is a critical assessment of the Colombian Victim’s Bill. Elite capture is addressed as a potential and still un-debated problem that will constrain land restitution in a further implementation stage if certain factors related to power dynamics are not taken into consideration. Who will be the actors in charge of land restitution allocation, which are the main tensions that can be foreseen as a result of its diverging and often opposing interests and how these tensions could be overcome in the Bill’s implementation stage, are thus the main issues that are going to be addressed in this paper. By contrasting data about displaced people, the presence of armed groups in the Colombian territory and the Gini land concentration coefficient, as well as the provisions of the Victims Bill regarding the creation of new institutions to deal with land restitution, a case is built in which paramilitary groups should be regarded as the most important social force capable of endangering the implementation of land restitution initiatives, not only because of direct violence, but especially because of the co-optation of different public institutions in charge of land restitution in their favour. Some recommendations will be provided. |
| Supervisor | Cartwright, Andrea |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/suescun-pozas_natalia-andrea.pdf |
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