The Geography of Justice: Assessing Local Justice in Colombia’s Post-Conflict Phase

García-Villegas, Mauricio; Espinosa, José Rafael

doi:10.5334/sta.gc

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“…But weak and war-torn states often fail to provide effective, legitimate institutions for resolving disputes, and armed groups have succeeded in becoming local “administrators of justice” in a wide variety of settings including Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Nepal, Cuba, Peru, and Sudan, among others. When these groups disarm, they leave behind governance gaps that states must fill in order to facilitate the implementation of peace agreements, prevent local conflicts from escalating into regional or national crises (Autesserre 2010; Blair, Blattman, and Hartman 2017), and impede other armed actors from seizing newly abandoned territories (García-Villegas and Espinosa 2015). But filling these gaps is not easy.…”

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Preventing Rebel Resurgence after Civil War: A Field Experiment in Security and Justice Provision in Rural Colombia

Blair

MOSCOSO-ROJAS

CASTILLO³

et al. 2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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How can states prevent armed groups from exploiting local governance gaps to (re)establish territorial control during transitions to national peace? We report results from an experimental evaluation of Colombia’s ComunPaz program, a scalable, inexpensive intervention that sought to replace rebel governance by harnessing complementarities between state and communal authorities and by improving security and justice provision in areas once dominated by FARC, the country’s largest rebel group. We find that ComunPaz enhanced the quality of local dispute resolution, increased citizens’ trust in (some) state institutions, and strengthened coordination between state and communal authorities. It also appears to have reduced citizens’ trust in, and reliance on, armed groups. The program did not, however, increase reliance on either state or communal authorities to resolve disputes, nor did it increase citizens’ trust in communal institutions. We discuss the implications of our findings for peace-building and state-building in countries transitioning from civil war.

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confidence: 99%