What indexes leave behind: measuring law in Colombia

Helena Alviar García
2012

The Unending Quest for Land: The Tale of Broken Constitutional Promises

Helena Alviar García
2011

Los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales en el Estado Social de Derecho

Helena Alviar García
Universidad de los Andes

Engulfed buy the family: women in the colombian development state between 1966 and 1990

Helena Alviar García

This article analyzes the evolution of social policy in Colombia in relation with macroeconomic development policies and family since 1966. Understanding that many legal reforms have been unable to redistribute resources across gender lines because of their inability to foreground economic ...

Searching for Women and Sustainable Development in Colombia: Restructuring the Limits

Helena Alviar García

Legal Reform, Social Policy, and Gendered Redistribution in Colombia: The Role of the Family

Helena Alviar García

¿Quién paga o debe pagar los costos del Estado Social de Derecho?

Helena Alviar García

Una mirada distinta a las transformaciones del derecho administrativo

Helena Alviar García

Constitución y economía

Helena Alviar García

This paper analyzes the relationship, in Colombia, between law and modernization until1945, and, since then, between law and economic development. This last phase saw atransformation from an instrumental conception of law to an understanding of law as a statemechanism used to fulfil the goals of ...

Violencia de género y justicia constitucional en Colombia

Julissa Mantilla Falcón
2009

Recuperando la memoria desde las mujeres: Aportes del caso colombiano

Julissa Mantilla Falcón
2016

El Estado siempre llega tarde: La reconstrucción de la vida cotidiana después de la guerra

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2019

Legal Fetishism: Law and social movements in Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2008

El amor en tiempos de cólera: Derechos LGBT en Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2009

Internally displaced Women as Knowledge Producers and Users in Humanitarian Action: The View from Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
2013

The literature on evidence-based action in humanitarian crises commonly focuses on how inter-and non-governmental organisations can produce better knowledge and how this can be translated into improved programming. Yet, there is little recorded experience of, or concern about, how the beneficiaries ...

Shifting Frames, Vanishing Resources and Dangerous Legal Opportunities: Legal Mobilization among Displaced Women in Colombia.

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
2016

How can we make sense of the use of legal claims and tactics under conditions of internal displacement and armed conflict? This article argues that in violent contexts mobilization frames are unstable and constantly shifting, resources tend to vanish, and political opportunities often imply ...

After the War: Displaced Women, Ordinary Ethics and Grassroots Reconstruction in Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2016

This article examines internally displaced women’s narratives of rebuilding their life after displacement, focusing on questions of moral agency and community governance. The data come from a 3-year research project (2010–2013) with internally displaced women in Colombia, during the emergence of a ...

Humanitarian aid and host state capacity: the challenges of the Norwegian Refugee Council in Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2018

How can humanitarian actors operate in a host state with significant subnational variations in willingness and capacity to meet its obligations? This is an issue of pressing importance, given the expansion of humanitarian aid to middle-income countries with growing state capacity, but with ...

Finding the Roads to Justice? Examining Trajectories of Transition for Internally Displaced Women in Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
2016