trazos para una metodología que permita comprender las razones de éxito y fracaso regional del control territorial de las farc-ep / features for a methodology which allows the understanding of the reasons of the regional success and failure behind the territorial control of farc-ep: the perspective of the qualitative comparative analysis (csqca)

El siguiente artículo recoge la propuesta metodológica de una investigación que se formuló con el propósito de dar cuenta de las razones que explican la diferente presencia que, a nivel territorial, expresan las Farc al término del periodo 1998-2010, tiempo en que la estrategia contrainsurgente del estado colombiano si bien logró desplazar a esta guerrilla de algunas regiones del país, en otras no lo consiguió. La perspectiva metodológica aquí planteada propone una estrategia analítica para identificar, definir y comprender las causas de la diversidad regional de la geografía de la guerra en Colombia. Tal estrategia se enfocó desde una óptica comparada a partir de un modelo desarrollado por la ciencia política denominado Conjunto de Variables para el Análisis Comparativo Cualitativo (csQCA en sus siglas en inglés, crips set of Qualitative Comprative Analysis).

The following article contains the methodological proposal of a piece of research that was carried out in order to give an account of the reasons which explain the different presence that, at the territorial level, the FARC express, at the end of the 1998 – 2010 period. That was a time in which the counterinsurgency strategy of the Colombian State even though it managed to move the guerrillas in some regions of the country, in others did not. The methodological perspective, which is posed here, proposes an analytical strategy to identify, to define, and to understand the causes of the regional diversity of the geography of the war in Colombia. Such a strategy has shifted from a comparative perspective based on a model developed by the political science called Set of Variables for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA in its acronym in English, crips set of Qualitative Comparative Analysis).

Tattoo and Personality Traits in Croatian Veterans

To examine whether tattooed patients, treated for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caused by war at the Ward for Psycho-trauma of the Clinical Hospital Osijek, differ from non-tattooed patients by certain personality traits. The study was conducted on one hundred Croatian veterans who were divided into two groups with respect to the presence/ absence of tattoo. To assess the symptoms of PTSD, the Clinical Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS-2) was used for all subjects. To assess personality traits the following psychology tests were applied: Purdue non-verbal IQ test, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-1), and Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire (EPQ/A and EPQ/IVE). With respect to the examined pre-traumatic variables and PTSD symptoms, the two groups manifested no differences. The non-tattooed group achieved higher scores on the IQ test (IQ=100) than the tattooed group (IQ=95). EPQ test showed results either above or below the norms on all scales that were applied. The tattooed group demonstrated significantly higher levels of impulsiveness, adventurism, empathy and neuroticism than the non-tattooed one (p < 0.05). In the group of 100 Croatian veterans treated for PTSD, 33 had tattoos and 67 did not. The results indicated more impulsiveness, adventurism / risk behavior, empathy and neuroticism in the tattooed group than in the non-tattooed group, while there was no significant difference in the intensity of the PTSD symptoms.

Bombardeio estratégico: aspecto psicológico / Firstly

Inicialmente foi comentado sobre a política de guerra quanto ao impacto psicológico sofrido por populações inimigas, ao serem bombardeadas por via aérea, onde foi citado o bombardeio de Hirochima das principais cidades européias na II Grande Guerra. Por fim, é demonstrado que esses estudos sobre bombardeio aéreo em populações metropolitanas abate o moral, facilitando o final do conflito, e que esta não é só uma questão do poderio militar material, existem as sequelas psicológicas dos povos em guerra, as quais podem ser essenciais na definição política do conflito