{"id":3388,"date":"2025-02-02T21:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.external-democracy-promotion.eu\/de\/escalation-of-violence-amidst-colombias-struggle-for-peace-causes-and-implications-of-catatumbos-humanitarian-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T21:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:02:49","slug":"escalation-of-violence-amidst-colombias-struggle-for-peace-causes-and-implications-of-catatumbos-humanitarian-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.external-democracy-promotion.eu\/de\/escalation-of-violence-amidst-colombias-struggle-for-peace-causes-and-implications-of-catatumbos-humanitarian-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Escalation of Violence amidst Colombia&#8217;s Struggle for Peace: Causes and Implications of Catatumbo&#8217;s Humanitarian Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In: <em>TraCe Policy Brief, 8, Frankfurt\/M.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In Jan\u00aduary 2025, violent clashes bet\u00adween compet\u00ading armed groups in the re\u00adgion of Cata\u00adtumbo led to one of the worst humani\u00adtarian crises in Colombia\u2019s recent his\u00adtory, which left at least 55 civilians dead and more than 50,000 people forcib\u00adly displaced. Despite the decla\u00adration of a natio\u00adnal emer\u00adgency and the deploy\u00adment of the mili\u00adtary by the govern\u00adment of Gustavo Petro, the situa\u00adtion re\u00admains tense. In this TraCe Policy Brief, we identify key cau\u00adses behind the most recent esca\u00adlation of vio\u00adlence and discuss impli\u00adcations for on\u00adgoing and future attempts at building peace in Colom\u00adbia.<\/p>\n<p>You can access the whole article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48809\/PRIFTraCePB2508\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In: TraCe Policy Brief, 8, Frankfurt\/M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Escalation of Violence amidst Colombia&#039;s Struggle for Peace: Causes and Implications of Catatumbo&#039;s Humanitarian Crisis - EDP Netzwerk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In: TraCe Policy Brief, 8, Frankfurt\/M. 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