Concentración de la propiedad rural y el conflicto violento en Colombia, un análisis espacial

Abstract

"Diverse studies have used econometric analysis to assess the veracity of various interpretations about Colombia s political violence. Part of the literature has argued that the deficiency of political participation mechanisms, product of extreme poverty and land concentration, has reflected on the use of political violence as a mean of social vindication. Given the rural nature of Colombia the degree of concentration on the rural property played an important role as one of the causes that explained the political violence in the country. Unfortunately, agrarian reforms have had a very poor effect on the evolution of political violence and little attention has been given to the impact evaluation of this type of policies. The main objective of this study is to establish the degree of association between land property concentration and political violence, evaluating if there exists inertia in time of land concentration and political violence and the geographical convergence of the diverse violent mechanisms and the land concentration. In this document the hypothesis that land concentration is not the main explaining factor of Colombia s political violence is proposed."