Impactos, resistencias y tensiones de las comunidades afrodescendientes del Pacífico colombiano al interior del conflicto armado interno: análisis desde la reconstrucción de memoria histórica. / Impacts, resistances and tensions of african descent ...

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (06) ◽  
pp. 37-65
Author(s):  
Clara Patricia Pantoja Bohórquez
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociedad Civil

Este artículo presenta un análisis de las resistencias, impactos y tensiones de dos Comunidades Afrocolombianas que habitan el Pacífico Colombiano, que han sido víctimas colectivas del conflicto armado interno que vive el país. Los casos fueron reconstruidos a partir de un proceso de Memoria Histórica implementado en la región Pacífica del departamento de Nariño durante los años 2011 y 2012, en el cual se desarrolló un ejercicio riguroso de investigación-intervención de carácter cualitativo y participativo, que después fue sistematizado y validado con las comunidades. El tema adquiere relevancia en la actualidad, dado el discurso de posconflicto que viene instalándose en Colombia y el impulso que tanto a nivel institucional como por parte de la sociedad civil, se le otorga a las iniciativas de memoria, como herramienta para los procesos de verdad, justicia y reparación de las víctimas. This paper analyzes the resistances, impacts and tensions in two Afro-Colombian communities who inhabit the Colombian Pacific coast, which have been collective victims of the armed conflict in the country. The cases were reve from a process of Historical Memory implemented in the Pacific region of Nariño during 2011 and 2012, from a qualitative and participatory research and intervention, which was later systematized and validated with communities. The subject becomes relevant today, whitin the current post-conflict speech and the significance given to Memory initiatives as a tool for the processes of truth, justice and reparation for victims.

scholarly journals Sediment budget analysis of the Guayas River using a process-based model

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 2763-2778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro D. Barrera Crespo ◽  
Erik Mosselman ◽  
Alessio Giardino ◽  
Anke Becker ◽  
Willem Ottevanger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Sediment Budget ◽  
Stagnant Water ◽  
Local Perception ◽  
Budget Analysis ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

Abstract. The equatorial Daule and Babahoyo rivers meet and combine into the tidal Guayas River, which flows into the largest estuary on the Pacific coast of South America. The city of Guayaquil, located along the Guayas, is the main port of Ecuador but, at the same time, the planet's fourth most vulnerable city to future flooding due to climate change. Sedimentation, which has increased in recent years, is seen as one of the factors contributing to the risk of flooding. The cause of this sedimentation is the subject of the current research. We used the process-based Delft3D FM model to assess the dominant processes in the river and the effects that past interventions along the river and its estuary have had on the overall sediment budget. Additionally, a simulation including sea level rise was used in order to understand the possible future impact of climate change on the sediment budget. Results indicate an increase in tidal asymmetry due to land reclamation and a decrease in episodic flushing by river floods due to upstream dam construction. These processes have induced an increased import of marine sediment potentially responsible for the observed sedimentation. This is in contrast with the local perception of the problem, which ascribes sedimentation to deforestation in the upper catchment. Only the deposition of silt and clay in connected stagnant water bodies could perhaps be ascribed to upstream deforestation.

Child Soldiers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Guyot-Diangone
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Child Soldier ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Social Work Ethics ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Traditional Healing Practices

This article provides an overview of the phenomenon of child soldiers in war theaters around the world. Research studies are used to illustrate the deficits approach frequently applied to young people’s involvement in armed combat. In addition to a review of the legal protections surrounding the involvement of children in armed conflict, this article broadens the discourse on child soldiers. Diversity is introduced to counter the monolithic characterization of the child soldier, including descriptions of the various forms, levels, and dimensions participation may take, affecting all spheres of life—providing a holistic, community-level view not limited to individualized intrapsychic experiences. The subject of the child soldier has been approached through scholarship from a number of disciplines and centers on reintegration practices, the use of children as a military strategy, the process of weaponizing children, children’s moral development, and the use of traditional healing practices. Core social work ethics, along with the discipline’s strengths-based approach to inquiry are employed to further counter the narrative of “brokenness” that is prevalent in these fields. The introduction of resilience factors is used to broaden awareness of the diversity of outcomes among the various cohorts studied. Childhood as a social construction is discussed, along with its Western-informed biases. Humanitarian aid and development bodies have structured educational programs and livelihood opportunities to assist former child soldiers reintegrate into post-conflict societies, and Western understandings of childhood influence the architecture of these efforts. Although protections surrounding the involvement of minors in armed conflict have grown, the use of child soldiers remains. The article uses the Convention of the Rights of the Child along with the African Charter on Children in Armed Conflict to help unpack the disparate meanings of what it means to be a child within various sociocultural contexts.

REVIEW OF THE TREMATODE GENERA BACCIGER AND PENTAGRAMMA (FELLODISTOMATIDAE) AND DESCRIPTION OF P. PETROWI (LAYMAN, 1930) N. COMB. FROM MARINE FISHES FROM THE PACIFIC COAST OF CANADA

1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Margolis ◽  
Hilda Lei Ching
Keyword(s):  
North Pacific ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Marine Fishes ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Type B ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
North Pacific Region ◽  
The North Pacific

The generic diagnoses of Bacciger and Pentagramma are emended. Recognized as members of the genus Bacciger are the type, B. bacciger (Rudolphi, 1819), from the Mediterranean, Black, and Azov Seas; B. nicolli Palombi, 1934, from Atlantic waters near the British Isles; and B. opisthonemae Nahhas and Cable, 1964, from Jamaican waters. Pentagramma consist of P. symmetricum Chnlkova, 1939, the type, from the Black and Azov Seas and P. petrowi (Layman, 1930) n. comb, from the northern part of the North Pacific region. Synonyms of P. petrowi are Monorcheides(?) petrowi Layman, 1930: Orientophorus sayori Yamaguti, 1942; Faustula sayori (Yamaguti, 1942); Orientophorus petrowi (Layman, 1930); and Bacciger petrowi (Layman, 1930). Pentagramma petrowi is redescribed and additional details of morphology are included for P. symmetricum, B. bacciger, and B. nicolli. Measurements of the species discussed and extensive host and locality records are tabulated.

scholarly journals CHOCQUIBTOWN: Young Voices Shattering Afro-Colombian Invisibility

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Gaviria-Buck
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The Past ◽  
Musical Production ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Media

In the past two years an Afrocolombian hip-hop band from the Pacific region of Colombia has been getting a lot of attention in the media, especially after winning a Latin Grammy Award in 2010 and being nominated to several categories of the Grammy Music Awards in 2011 and 2012.  In their lyrics, they claim to represent the black population of the Pacific coast, people of African descent who have traditionally lived in marginalized conditions of poverty and exploitation of different sorts.  By borrowing some insights from African American criticism, the afrocentricity in Choquibtown's songs is explored.  Additionally, through a postcolonialist approach, this band's musical production is analyzed as a voice of widespread racism and as means of resistance to political and cultural oppression. 

Awarded with Eternity: Specifics of the Burial Practices in the Ancient Cultures of the Pacific Region at the Turn of the Eras

2018 ◽  
pp. 34-47
Author(s):  
Андрей Табарев ◽  
Andrey Tabarev
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Tropical Zone ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Western Mexico ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Similar Formation

The paper deals with various aspects of the complex academic issue of studying the culture genesis in the Pacific Region based on the archeological data. Periods of strong cultural surges, milestones in the development of technologies and economy, crucial events in economy and social domain are of acute interest within the scope of the outlined problem. Such periods include the era turn (the 2nd century BC – 3–4th centuries AD), i. e. “The time of great leaders and stone tombs”. The research focuses on two regions – the southern part of the Japanese Archipelago (Kyushu, Ryukyu and Okinawa islands) and the tropical zone of the Pacific coast of America (from Western Mexico to the northern Chile) – and to individual parts of the South-Eastern Asia (the Philippines, Indonesia). The findings obtained in the course of the research confirm the hypothesis about similar formation scenarios of the tribal elite and accompanying components of architecture, arts and commerce in objects of “prestigious technologies” in the ancient cultures of the tropical and subtropical zones of the Pacific Region.

The Historiography of the Activities of Francis Drake along the Pacific Coast of North America in 1579

1969 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Kenneth L. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
Line Setting ◽  
The North Pacific ◽  
North Latitude

Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the world (1577-1581) marks the first certain approach of Europeans to what later became known as the Northwest Coast of America. Historical research on this voyage has stemmed from Great Britain and the United States. British scholars concerned with the subject as part of English maritime activity have included Richard Hakluyt, James Anthony Froude, E. G. R. Taylor, James A. Williamson and A. L. Rowse. The latest British scholar to inquire into the motives and events of the great voyage is Kenneth R. Andrews. These writers have generally given little space to Drake's experiences on the Northwest Coast. However, the late California scholar Henry Raup Wagner published a monumental study of the subject in 1926. This work and two volumes published by the Hakluyt Society provide most of the documents relating to the voyage.The pertinent passages describing Drake's activities in the North Pacific are as follows: From Guatulco [a village near Acapulco on the Mexicanwest coast] we departed the day following, viz. April 16.setting our course directly into the sea: whereon we sayled500. leagues in longitude, to get a winde: and between thatand June 3. 1400. leagues in all, till we came into 42. deg.of North latitude. ….The land in that part of America, bearing farther out into the West, then we before imagined, we were neerer on it than wee were aware; and yet the neerer still wee came unto it, the more extremitie of cold did sease upon us. The 5. day of June, wee were forced by contrary windes, to run in with the shoare, which we then first descried; and cast anchor in a bad bay, the best roade we could for the present meete with: where wee were not without some danger, by reason of the many extreme gusts, and flawes that beate upon us; which if they ceased and were still at any time, immediately upon their intermission, there followed most vile, thicke, and stinking fogges; against which the sea prevailed nothing, till the gusts of wind were againe remowed them, which brought with them, such extremitity and violence when they came, that there was no dealing or resisting against them.

scholarly journals Nineteenth Century Navies Role in Developing an understanding of the Pacific Coast of Central America

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Jorge León Sáenz
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Central American ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Use ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century

Navies, apart from their traditional use by nations as instruments for the projection of power, for the protection of maritime interests and for exercising peacekeeping and war activities, have also had an important role in developing scientific and technical knowledge.  The survey work undertaken by various navies since the 18th century, has in particular been of great benefit in improving and making navigation safer on high seas and coasts, through the provision of maritime charts and sailing directions, to all mariners.  The technical efforts and geopolitical interests behind those efforts in the 19th century and how they affected the maritime trade and foreign affairs of the Central American countries located on the Pacific Coast are the subject of this study.

scholarly journals Stakeholders, Primary Health Care and Dispersed Rurality

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M C Jaramillo-Mejia ◽  
A Nuñez-Cabrera ◽  
J C Gil
Keyword(s):  
National Health ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Health Priorities ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Illegal Mining ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
Health Model ◽  
Institutional Actors

Abstract Objective To characterize the existing tensions between actors which condition the implementation of the renewed primary healthcare (PHC), in the context of the most recent Colombian post-conflict years, in the territories of high rurality of the Pacific Coast. Methods We performed a qualitative study based on action research methodology with a critical and reflexive analysis of the social and institutional actors in the implementation of the Renewed PHC model in dispersed rural areas (Afro-Colombian and indigenous) the Pacific coast. We analyzed the different interested parties and the concordance between the community and institutional actors. Results The level of implementation of the Renewed PHC in high rurality territories of the Colombian Pacific Coast, intersects with tensions arising from the armed conflict, that affect sustainability and governance of the territory, and the intercultural tensions between the national health model in Colombia and the communities' social representations of their own health and development. Only 25% of the Renewed PHC elements are present, under low or medium conditions. Analysis of actors -Stakeholders-, according to their nature, level of presence, and power in the area indicates the absence of the Colombian government in these territories. Members of the community and their health resources constitute 48% of the Renewed PHC parties. Conclusions Limited understanding of the ethnic logics on health and development stands out as the main tension among actors to advance with the implementation of the Renewed PHC in post-conflict territories with high rurality. The national health model has a low capacity to accurately address health priorities from the Afro-descendant and Indigenous communities occupying such territories, with a differentiated, intercultural offer that would be able to act integrally on the dynamics of the illegal economy (illegal mining and illicit crops), which can seriously compromise their food security. Key messages Only 25% of the components of the renewed PHC are present in the territories with high dispersed rurality. In the post-conflict period, there are still tensions between community actors and stakeholders (Institutions).

Incompatibility, Substitution or Complementarity? Interrogating Relationships between International, State and Non-State Peace Agents in Post-Conflict Solomon Islands

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Boege
Keyword(s):  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Agents ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Shadow It ◽  
Violent Conflicts

This concluding chapter illustrates how, in the Soloman Islands, very significant agency lies at the social level of peacemaking. In July 2003, after several years of internal violent conflicts, the Solomon Islands became the target of the biggest peacebuilding intervention in the Pacific region to date — the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI). This mission is generally presented as a success story of post-conflict peacebuilding and statebuilding. The chapter shows how locals have pursued their own indigenous processes of peace formation detached from, and parallel to, RAMSI, albeit in its shadow. It draws mainly on field research into community views on the capacities, effectiveness, and legitimacy of international, state, and local, non-state agents of peace and state formation, using the categories of incompatibility, substitution, and complementarity to analyse the approaches and practices of these actors.

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