Juan E Ugarriza
Biographic Data
| ID | 821565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan E Ugarriza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ugarriza |
| SIGNATURE | UGARRIZA J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad del Rosario |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8559-268X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Could war veterans be also victims? Mental health correlates of self-reported victimhood status among military personnel in Colombia
Ideological Attitudes, Victimization, and the Persistent Divide Between Armed Forces and Former Guerrillas in Colombia
Ideology is a powerful tool for parties in armed conflicts, as it provides a source of motivation for combatants to stay in group under difficult circumstances and to perform actions that put them at risk or defy their personal ethical codes. But once in peacetime, besides the effects of past negative intergroup experiences, radical beliefs may become an obstacle to reconciliation and prolong the confrontation in the minds of ex-combatants. An ex…
Ex-combatants and the Truth Commission in Colombia: An Analysis of the Participation of Former Military and Ex-guerrillas
∞ The Colombian Truth Commission (2018 to 2022) provides a unique opportunity to delve into the participation of ex-military personnel and former guerrillas within truth-seeking bodies. While existing literature highlights the importance of their involvement in facilitating the assumption of responsibilities, rebuilding relations with their victims and undergoing personal transformation, it tends to overlook their potential contribution to truth …
Transitioning Guerrillas: An Analysis of the Internal Cohesion of the Former Farc in Their Transit from War to Democracy
The emergence of ex-rebels' political parties after peace accords creates a vehicle for political reintegration, which in turn has positive effects on peace and democracy consolidation after war. However, many of these parties tend to break apart and disappear, elevating the risk of renewed cycles of political violence. In times of war, cohesion plays a pivotal role in maintaining the bonds among members of armed organizations. It empowers them t…
Imprints of war: An analysis of implicit prejudice among victims, ex-combatants, and communities in Colombia
Por qué los rebeldes dejan de luchar? Declive organizacional y deserción en la insurgencia de Colombia
Objetivo/contexto: la desercin, o salida no autorizada de un grupo armado, tiene importantes implicaciones para la contrainsurgencia, la terminacin de una guerra y la dinmica de reclutamiento. Si bien la investigacin existente enfatiza la importancia de motivaciones individuales para la desercin, el declive organizacional, en forma de adversidad militar y financiera, tambin puede condicionar la desercin. El declive organizacional socava los instr…
Better not talk? A mixed-methods experimental analysis of avoiding sensitive issues in post-conflict settings
Ex-combatants, war victims, and violence-affected community members are typically forced to live together as neighbors in post-conflict settings. Cases all over the world accumulate evidence on the fact that living together after war is a far from a harmonic endeavor, and individuals usually rely on contention mechanisms to keep on with their daily lives while in proximity of former and present-day antagonists. While decades-long academic researc…
Structural analysis of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire in population exposed to armed conflicts
Why Rebels Stop Fighting: Organizational Decline and Desertion in Colombia's Insurgency
Desertion, or the unauthorized exit from an armed group, has major implications for counterinsurgency, war termination, and recruitment dynamics. While existing research stresses the importance of individual motivations for desertion, organizational decline, in the form of military and financial adversity, can also condition desertion. Organizational decline undermines a group's instruments to channel individual preferences into collective action…
The ironic effect of deliberation: What we can (and cannot) expect in deeply divided societies
How empathic are war veterans? An examination of the psychological impacts of combat exposure
How empathic are battle-experienced war veterans and demobilized ex-combatants? Individuals who have participated in war-related violence tend to show an increased risk of mental health problems, which makes their readaptation to postconflict civilian lif
The Effect of Perspective‐Giving on Postconflict Reconciliation. An Experimental Approach
Discussion groups are a promising tool for bridging the divide between former conflict antagonists. However, such groups do not always produce the desired outcome of improved attitudes, even when they meet the conditions generally seen as favoring positive interaction. In this article, we examine specific discussion protocols that mitigate polarization risks while fostering reconciliation. Using a randomized, controlled design, we formed a pool o…
Reconciliation: A comprehensive framework for empirical analysis
There appears to be a rift between the theoretical and normative understandings of what reconciliation means and offers, and what people expect to happen in postconflict scenarios. Here we present a conceptual framework that captures the definitional diversity surrounding the concept of reconciliation and then operationalizes it in order to analyze responses from postconflict populations. The illustrative application of our framework to responses…
There is No Pill for Deliberation: Explaining Discourse Quality in Post‐conflict Communities
Recent experimental research suggests that ordinary citizens are capable of behaving in a democratic and deliberative way in controversial political debates, when given the right instructions. In this study, we test the potential of such instructions in contexts where levels of polarization, conflict and social marginalization are high. Using a randomized controlled experimental design, we test the effect of encouraging members of marginalized an…
When War Adversaries Talk: The Experimental Effect of Engagement Rules on Postconflict Deliberation
A set of discussion groups including leftist ex-guerrillas and rightist ex-paramilitaries in Colombia shows the limits for democratic deliberation in postconflict societies, but also points to ways that outcomes closer to the deliberative ideal might be obtained. A total of 342 ex-combatants agreed to sit down and talk politics under a number of experimental conditions, using three different protocols of engagement. Results show that consensus ru…
Victims, Nonvictims and Their Opinions on Transitional Justice: Findings from the Colombian Case
Victims of armed conflict are often seen as driven by trauma-related stark emotions that differentiate them from nonvictims. Based on this premise, they should hold different views from people who have not been directly affected by war about punishing perpetrators of violence, remembering human rights violations, seeking truth and receiving reparations. The resilience literature, on the contrary, has downplayed the role of traumatic experiences i…
Son Los Guerrilleros Diferentes De Los Paramilitares? Una Integración Y Validación Sistemática De Estudios Motivacionales en Colombia
Es el combatiente de grupos de guerrilla y el de grupos paramilitares en el fondo el mismo tipo de persona? La evidencia sugiere que ambos atraviesan diferentes tipos de experiencia de guerra y procesos de socialización, y habría que esperar que se comportaran de forma disímil luego de su desmovilización. En este estudio, demostramos que los miembros de grupos de guerrilla y paramilitares en Colombia se mueven por motivaciones claramente distingu…
Democratic Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies
Through case-analysis and cross-sectional assessment of eleven countries this collection explores the most deeply divided societies in the world in order to highlight what deliberative democracy looks
The Relevance of Ideology to Contemporary Armed Conflicts: A Quantitative Analysis of Former Combatants in Colombia
This article counterclaims that ideology lacks relevance to contemporary armed conflicts, especially when economic factors play an important role. Focusing on the case of Colombia, the authors utilize logistic regression analysis to test whether ideology allows one to distinguish between different armed groups and whether a combatant’s level of agreement with his or her armed group is related to affinity for that group’s ideology. The high degree…
Favorable Conditions to Epistemic Validity in Deliberative Experiments: A Methodological Assessment
Methodological evaluations of deliberative mini-publics usually focus on the internal and external validity of experimental designs. Even though such a focus on causal inference and generalization is important, it is incomplete. We argue that the epistemic validity of experimental designs should also be taken into account in order to ensure measuring truly a deliberative exercise rather than just a regular discussion. By ensuring the inclusion an…
The Relevance of Ideology to Contemporary Armed Conflicts: A Quantitative Analysis of Former Combatants in Colombia
This article counterclaims that ideology lacks relevance to contemporary armed conflicts, especially when economic factors play an important role. Focusing on the case of Colombia, the authors utilize logistic regression analysis to test whether ideology allows one to distinguish between different armed groups and whether a combatant’s level of agreement with his or her armed group is related to affinity for that group’s ideology. The high degree…
Reconciliation: A comprehensive framework for empirical analysis
There appears to be a rift between the theoretical and normative understandings of what reconciliation means and offers, and what people expect to happen in postconflict scenarios. Here we present a conceptual framework that captures the definitional diversity surrounding the concept of reconciliation and then operationalizes it in order to analyze responses from postconflict populations. The illustrative application of our framework to responses…
The Effect of Perspective‐Giving on Postconflict Reconciliation. An Experimental Approach
Discussion groups are a promising tool for bridging the divide between former conflict antagonists. However, such groups do not always produce the desired outcome of improved attitudes, even when they meet the conditions generally seen as favoring positive interaction. In this article, we examine specific discussion protocols that mitigate polarization risks while fostering reconciliation. Using a randomized, controlled design, we formed a pool o…
Victims, Nonvictims and Their Opinions on Transitional Justice: Findings from the Colombian Case
Victims of armed conflict are often seen as driven by trauma-related stark emotions that differentiate them from nonvictims. Based on this premise, they should hold different views from people who have not been directly affected by war about punishing perpetrators of violence, remembering human rights violations, seeking truth and receiving reparations. The resilience literature, on the contrary, has downplayed the role of traumatic experiences i…
Why Rebels Stop Fighting: Organizational Decline and Desertion in Colombia's Insurgency
Desertion, or the unauthorized exit from an armed group, has major implications for counterinsurgency, war termination, and recruitment dynamics. While existing research stresses the importance of individual motivations for desertion, organizational decline, in the form of military and financial adversity, can also condition desertion. Organizational decline undermines a group's instruments to channel individual preferences into collective action…
The ironic effect of deliberation: What we can (and cannot) expect in deeply divided societies
Imprints of war: An analysis of implicit prejudice among victims, ex-combatants, and communities in Colombia
There is No Pill for Deliberation: Explaining Discourse Quality in Post‐conflict Communities
Recent experimental research suggests that ordinary citizens are capable of behaving in a democratic and deliberative way in controversial political debates, when given the right instructions. In this study, we test the potential of such instructions in contexts where levels of polarization, conflict and social marginalization are high. Using a randomized controlled experimental design, we test the effect of encouraging members of marginalized an…
Son Los Guerrilleros Diferentes De Los Paramilitares? Una Integración Y Validación Sistemática De Estudios Motivacionales en Colombia
Es el combatiente de grupos de guerrilla y el de grupos paramilitares en el fondo el mismo tipo de persona? La evidencia sugiere que ambos atraviesan diferentes tipos de experiencia de guerra y procesos de socialización, y habría que esperar que se comportaran de forma disímil luego de su desmovilización. En este estudio, demostramos que los miembros de grupos de guerrilla y paramilitares en Colombia se mueven por motivaciones claramente distingu…
Better not talk? A mixed-methods experimental analysis of avoiding sensitive issues in post-conflict settings
Ex-combatants, war victims, and violence-affected community members are typically forced to live together as neighbors in post-conflict settings. Cases all over the world accumulate evidence on the fact that living together after war is a far from a harmonic endeavor, and individuals usually rely on contention mechanisms to keep on with their daily lives while in proximity of former and present-day antagonists. While decades-long academic researc…
Structural analysis of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire in population exposed to armed conflicts
Could war veterans be also victims? Mental health correlates of self-reported victimhood status among military personnel in Colombia
Transitioning Guerrillas: An Analysis of the Internal Cohesion of the Former Farc in Their Transit from War to Democracy
The emergence of ex-rebels' political parties after peace accords creates a vehicle for political reintegration, which in turn has positive effects on peace and democracy consolidation after war. However, many of these parties tend to break apart and disappear, elevating the risk of renewed cycles of political violence. In times of war, cohesion plays a pivotal role in maintaining the bonds among members of armed organizations. It empowers them t…
Favorable Conditions to Epistemic Validity in Deliberative Experiments: A Methodological Assessment
Methodological evaluations of deliberative mini-publics usually focus on the internal and external validity of experimental designs. Even though such a focus on causal inference and generalization is important, it is incomplete. We argue that the epistemic validity of experimental designs should also be taken into account in order to ensure measuring truly a deliberative exercise rather than just a regular discussion. By ensuring the inclusion an…
The Relevance of Ideology to Contemporary Armed Conflicts: A Quantitative Analysis of Former Combatants in Colombia
This article counterclaims that ideology lacks relevance to contemporary armed conflicts, especially when economic factors play an important role. Focusing on the case of Colombia, the authors utilize logistic regression analysis to test whether ideology allows one to distinguish between different armed groups and whether a combatant’s level of agreement with his or her armed group is related to affinity for that group’s ideology. The high degree…
Democratic Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies
Through case-analysis and cross-sectional assessment of eleven countries this collection explores the most deeply divided societies in the world in order to highlight what deliberative democracy looks
Victims, Nonvictims and Their Opinions on Transitional Justice: Findings from the Colombian Case
Victims of armed conflict are often seen as driven by trauma-related stark emotions that differentiate them from nonvictims. Based on this premise, they should hold different views from people who have not been directly affected by war about punishing perpetrators of violence, remembering human rights violations, seeking truth and receiving reparations. The resilience literature, on the contrary, has downplayed the role of traumatic experiences i…
Son Los Guerrilleros Diferentes De Los Paramilitares? Una Integración Y Validación Sistemática De Estudios Motivacionales en Colombia
Es el combatiente de grupos de guerrilla y el de grupos paramilitares en el fondo el mismo tipo de persona? La evidencia sugiere que ambos atraviesan diferentes tipos de experiencia de guerra y procesos de socialización, y habría que esperar que se comportaran de forma disímil luego de su desmovilización. En este estudio, demostramos que los miembros de grupos de guerrilla y paramilitares en Colombia se mueven por motivaciones claramente distingu…
Reconciliation: A comprehensive framework for empirical analysis
There appears to be a rift between the theoretical and normative understandings of what reconciliation means and offers, and what people expect to happen in postconflict scenarios. Here we present a conceptual framework that captures the definitional diversity surrounding the concept of reconciliation and then operationalizes it in order to analyze responses from postconflict populations. The illustrative application of our framework to responses…
There is No Pill for Deliberation: Explaining Discourse Quality in Post‐conflict Communities
Recent experimental research suggests that ordinary citizens are capable of behaving in a democratic and deliberative way in controversial political debates, when given the right instructions. In this study, we test the potential of such instructions in contexts where levels of polarization, conflict and social marginalization are high. Using a randomized controlled experimental design, we test the effect of encouraging members of marginalized an…
When War Adversaries Talk: The Experimental Effect of Engagement Rules on Postconflict Deliberation
A set of discussion groups including leftist ex-guerrillas and rightist ex-paramilitaries in Colombia shows the limits for democratic deliberation in postconflict societies, but also points to ways that outcomes closer to the deliberative ideal might be obtained. A total of 342 ex-combatants agreed to sit down and talk politics under a number of experimental conditions, using three different protocols of engagement. Results show that consensus ru…
How empathic are war veterans? An examination of the psychological impacts of combat exposure
How empathic are battle-experienced war veterans and demobilized ex-combatants? Individuals who have participated in war-related violence tend to show an increased risk of mental health problems, which makes their readaptation to postconflict civilian lif
The Effect of Perspective‐Giving on Postconflict Reconciliation. An Experimental Approach
Discussion groups are a promising tool for bridging the divide between former conflict antagonists. However, such groups do not always produce the desired outcome of improved attitudes, even when they meet the conditions generally seen as favoring positive interaction. In this article, we examine specific discussion protocols that mitigate polarization risks while fostering reconciliation. Using a randomized, controlled design, we formed a pool o…
The ironic effect of deliberation: What we can (and cannot) expect in deeply divided societies
Structural analysis of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire in population exposed to armed conflicts
Why Rebels Stop Fighting: Organizational Decline and Desertion in Colombia's Insurgency
Desertion, or the unauthorized exit from an armed group, has major implications for counterinsurgency, war termination, and recruitment dynamics. While existing research stresses the importance of individual motivations for desertion, organizational decline, in the form of military and financial adversity, can also condition desertion. Organizational decline undermines a group's instruments to channel individual preferences into collective action…
Imprints of war: An analysis of implicit prejudice among victims, ex-combatants, and communities in Colombia
Por qué los rebeldes dejan de luchar? Declive organizacional y deserción en la insurgencia de Colombia
Objetivo/contexto: la desercin, o salida no autorizada de un grupo armado, tiene importantes implicaciones para la contrainsurgencia, la terminacin de una guerra y la dinmica de reclutamiento. Si bien la investigacin existente enfatiza la importancia de motivaciones individuales para la desercin, el declive organizacional, en forma de adversidad militar y financiera, tambin puede condicionar la desercin. El declive organizacional socava los instr…
Better not talk? A mixed-methods experimental analysis of avoiding sensitive issues in post-conflict settings
Ex-combatants, war victims, and violence-affected community members are typically forced to live together as neighbors in post-conflict settings. Cases all over the world accumulate evidence on the fact that living together after war is a far from a harmonic endeavor, and individuals usually rely on contention mechanisms to keep on with their daily lives while in proximity of former and present-day antagonists. While decades-long academic researc…
Ex-combatants and the Truth Commission in Colombia: An Analysis of the Participation of Former Military and Ex-guerrillas
∞ The Colombian Truth Commission (2018 to 2022) provides a unique opportunity to delve into the participation of ex-military personnel and former guerrillas within truth-seeking bodies. While existing literature highlights the importance of their involvement in facilitating the assumption of responsibilities, rebuilding relations with their victims and undergoing personal transformation, it tends to overlook their potential contribution to truth …
Transitioning Guerrillas: An Analysis of the Internal Cohesion of the Former Farc in Their Transit from War to Democracy
The emergence of ex-rebels' political parties after peace accords creates a vehicle for political reintegration, which in turn has positive effects on peace and democracy consolidation after war. However, many of these parties tend to break apart and disappear, elevating the risk of renewed cycles of political violence. In times of war, cohesion plays a pivotal role in maintaining the bonds among members of armed organizations. It empowers them t…
Could war veterans be also victims? Mental health correlates of self-reported victimhood status among military personnel in Colombia
Ideological Attitudes, Victimization, and the Persistent Divide Between Armed Forces and Former Guerrillas in Colombia
Ideology is a powerful tool for parties in armed conflicts, as it provides a source of motivation for combatants to stay in group under difficult circumstances and to perform actions that put them at risk or defy their personal ethical codes. But once in peacetime, besides the effects of past negative intergroup experiences, radical beliefs may become an obstacle to reconciliation and prolong the confrontation in the minds of ex-combatants. An ex…
Political science (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia (7 works) · Criminology (6 works)