@article{ref1,
title="The New Research on Civil Wars: Does It Help Us Understand the Colombian Conflict?",
journal="Latin American politics and society",
year="2008",
author="Gray, Vanessa Joan",
volume="50",
number="3",
pages="63-91",
abstract="The article synthesizes contributions from the recent comparative research on civil war and the case-specific literature on Colombia to argue that too often, commentators on this conflict overlook some of its key dimensions. A comprehensive analysis shows that no fewer than six factors are fueling violent conflict in Colombia: economic forces, state weakness, landscape, U.S. policies, long-duration and spin-off violence, and malicious opportunism by non-combatants. The first three are the ones that matter most. The case made here is that when analysts disregard the range and interrelat-edness of the factors involved, the result is a distortion of reality and a tendency to support policies that will not enhance the prospects for peace.<p />",
language="",
issn="1531-426X",
doi="10.1111/j.1548-2456.2008.00022.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2008.00022.x"
}