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Preface -- Colombia: background and U.S. relations / June S. Beittel -- Colombia's changing approach to drug policy / June S. Beittel and Liana W. Rosen -- Colombia adopts revised peace accord: what next? / June S. Beittel -- U.S. foreign assistance as Colombia's peace talks on cusp of completion / June S. Beittel -- The Pacific alliance: a trade integration initiative in Latin America / M. Angeles Villarreal -- Index.

Introduction: challenging American exceptionalism -- The longest war: U.S. military influence in Colombia, 1952-1995 -- War on the frontier -- How Plan Colombia was sold -- "We want a witness" : accompaniment in San José de Apartadó -- Mapping our war: where did U.S. aid in Colombia go? -- Killing the future -- Projects of life -- Massacre aftermath and cover-up -- Widespread and systematic: the dynamics of "legalized" murder -- The United States effect: impacts on "false positive" killings -- Investigation of the massacre -- An encounter with power -- Judicial warfare -- U.S. policy lessons -- Conclusion: the arc of impunity

This volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the problem of conflict and its methods of management in Nigeria's contemporary democracy. It represents a compendium of resourceful studies provided by experts on conflict studies from various disciplines across the Social Sciences and Humanities. Such studies are very useful at this crucial point in Nigeria's history as there are currently various national and international efforts to address the scourge of violent conflicts that have caused huge numbers of deaths and displacement of persons. The book will be of particular interest and use to conflict researchers, students, practitioners and government officials.-- Back cover

Locating Denmark in postcolonial Europe -- Danish "tropical" colonial history: national historiography globalised -- Political narratives of the emerging postcolonial North Atlantic -- The delusionary art of devolution -- Greenlandic modernisation and the evolution of development aid -- Tourism, restoration and the restaging of colonialism -- Brawny nation: contemporary Danish war films -- Contemporary Denmark: a retrospective