ABSTRACT

Despite the promise of the 2016 Colombian peace agreement, this paper argues that the intersection of poverty, insecurity and exclusion threatens sustainable peace in Colombia. In asserting this argument, the paper advances two case studies: the false positives scandal, which demonstrates the vulnerability of the poor to various security threats, and the coca eradication programme, which has fuelled further violence and economic insecurity on impoverished rural people. This paper uses these cases to highlight how poverty is used to legitimise, and is intertwined with, structural and physical violence in Colombia. These cases further shed light on the political economy of violence in Colombia, which legitimises the unequal distribution of wealth, exposes the poor to violence, and disguises crimes of the powerful through the narrative of the deviant or underserving poor and the rhetoric of maintaining security or advancing development. Fundamentally, this article posits that although the post-conflict moment presents a profound opportunity for transformational change, continued socio-economic inequalities and violence against the poor in Colombia will affect the ability to create a sustainable and meaningful peace.

摘要

尽管达成了2016年《哥伦比亚和平协议》的承诺，但本文认为，贫困，不安全和排斥的交集威胁着哥伦比亚的可持续和平。在提出这一论点时，本文进行了两个案例研究：误报丑闻（表明穷人容易受到各种安全威胁的影响）和古柯消除计划，这加剧了贫困农村人口的暴力和经济不安全状况。本文使用这些案例来突出说明如何利用贫困使哥伦比亚的结构性暴力和人身暴力合法化并与之交织在一起。这些案件进一步阐明了哥伦比亚的暴力政治经济学，这种政治经济学使财富的不平等分配合法化，使穷人面临暴力，并通过叙述偏见或为穷人服务的穷人以及维护安全或促进发展的言论掩盖了强权者的罪行。从根本上讲，本文认为，尽管冲突后时刻为变革提供了深远的机遇，但持续的社会经济不平等和对哥伦比亚穷人的暴力行为将影响建立可持续和有意义的和平的能力。