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2. Reframing governance, security and conflict in the light of HIV/AIDS: A synthesis of findings from the AIDS, security and conflict initiative
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de Waal, Alex
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PREVENTION of communicable diseases , *EPIDEMICS , *NATIONAL security , *AIDS & society , *HIV infections , *MILITARY policy , *GOVERNMENT policy ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
Abstract: This paper draws upon the findings of the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI) to reach conclusions about the relationship between HIV/AIDS, security, conflict and governance, in the areas of HIV/AIDS and state fragility, the reciprocal interactions between armed conflicts (including post-conflict transitions) and HIV/AIDS, and the impact of HIV/AIDS on uniformed services and their operational effectiveness. Gender issues cut across all elements of the research agenda. ASCI commissioned 29 research projects across regions, disciplines and communities of practice. Over the last decade, approaches to HIV/AIDS as a security threat have altered dramatically, from the early anticipation that the epidemic posed a threat to the basic functioning of states and security institutions, to a more sanguine assessment that the impacts will be less severe than feared. ASCI finds that governance outcomes have been shaped as much by the perception of HIV/AIDS as a security threat, as the actual impacts of the epidemic. ASCI research found that the current indices of fragility at country level did not demonstrate any significant association with HIV, calling into question the models used for asserting such linkages. However at local government level, appreciable impacts can be seen. Evidence from ASCI and elsewhere indicates that conventional indicators of conflict, including the definition of when it ends, fail to capture the social traumas associated with violent disruption and their implications for HIV. Policy frameworks adopted for political and security reasons translate poorly into social and public health policies. Fears of much-elevated HIV rates among soldiers with disastrous impacts on armies as institutions, have been overstated. In mature epidemics, rates of infection among the military resemble those of the peer groups within the general population. Military HIV/AIDS control policies follow a different and parallel paradigm to national (civilian) policies, in which armies prioritize command responsibility and operational effectiveness over individual rights. Law enforcement practices regarding criminalized and stigmatized activities, such as injecting drug use and commercial sex work, are an important factor in shaping the trajectory of HIV epidemics. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2010
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3. Public Policy on National Security and Defense - narratives in dispute : Influence of narratives about the armed conflict with the FARC-EP on changes in the Public Policy on National Security and Defense 2002-2020
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Paloma Culma, Kelly Tatiana and Romero Silva, Marco Alberto
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351 - Administración pública [350 - Administración pública y ciencia militar] ,Peace ,Política militar ,Conflict ,Government policy ,Seguridad nacional ,Paz ,Armed conflict ,Public policy ,Conflicto armado ,Military policy ,National security ,Conflicto ,Política pública ,Defensa ,Política gubernamental ,Security ,Defense ,Seguridad - Abstract
ilustraciones, gráficas, tablas El presente trabajo pretende analizar la influencia de las narrativas sobre el conflicto armado con las FARC-EP en los cambios de la política pública del sector de seguridad y defensa entre los años 2002 y 2020, teniendo en cuenta aquellas lógicas que han imperado y que han establecido una pugna por el sentido del conflicto y de las formas para solucionarlo. Ante ello, se tienen en cuenta los diferentes actores en los niveles respectivos que tienen incidencia o que han mostrado una fuerte posición al respecto, por lo que proporcionan las herramientas necesarias para realizar un análisis narrativo de política pública, bajo un enfoque Interpretativista, que da cuenta no solo de la importancia de hacer estos estudios sobre políticas desde miradas diferentes a las oficiales, sino del hecho de que las narrativas, argumentos y discursos que las sostienen tienen efectos reales y plantean constantes tensiones que se pueden identificar y precisar bajo un contexto histórico especifico como lo es el colombiano, en el que los juegos de poder y dominación han sido una constante. (Texto tomado de la fuente). This paper aims to analyze the influence of the narratives about the armed conflict with the FARC-EP on changes in public policy in the security and defense sector between 2002 and 2020, taking into account those logics that have prevailed and that have established a struggle for the meaning of the conflict and the ways to solve it. Given this, the different actors at the respective levels that have an impact or have shown a strong position in this regard are taken into account, thus providing the necessary tools to carry out a narrative analysis of public policy, under an Interpretative approach, which gives account not only of the importance of conducting these studies on policies from perspectives different from the official ones, but also of the fact that the narratives, arguments and discourses that support them have real effects and pose constant tensions that can be identified and specified in a historical context specify as it is the Colombian, in which the games of power and domination have been a constant. Incluye anexos Maestría Magíster en Políticas Públicas
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- 2021
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