Description: Monitoring Progress in Peace Implementation
Below is the original English of an article that WOLA’s Adam Isacson wrote for the Colombian analysis website Razón Pública , which published it on September 19 . The editors were seeking an explanation for the persistently high levels of violence and insecurity that Colombia faces, despite maintaining some of the region’s largest security forces and outspending its neighbors on security.
The answer, Isacson argues, lies mainly in Colombia’s unbalanced approach: if one envisions an entire “security sector,” Colombia has really only developed a part of it: the part that carries guns and wears uniforms.
The English text follows: