THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LAND PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE COLOMBIAN CIVIL WAR: A STUDY ON LAND-GRABBING
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2019
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During the turn of the twenty-first century, Colombia witnessed what can be designated as the most recent chapter in its history of agrarian conflicts. During this time, as a consequence of the country's civil war, entire rural populations forced to displace abandoned massive tracts of land. The property rights of these internally displaced peoples were affected during their absence and many were dispossessed of their homes. In the Colombian context this phenomenon has been labeled as Land-grabbing and it constitutes the subject of study of this doctoral dissertation. Using novel country-level data, this dissertation employs a mixed methods approach to identify the central drivers and enablers of this land-grabbing phenomenon. The research also presents a novel data driven characterization of the phenomenon.