A cooperação estratégica do Brasil nas operações de desminagem na Colômbia (1999-2020)

Abstract

In the relationship with other state entities, Brazil has strategic cooperation as a principle, which is understood from the analysis of documents such as the National Defense Strategy (END), the National Defense Policy (PND) and the Defense White Paper (LBDN). On the contribution of Brazil to the banning of landmines in the last two decades, this study highlights the Brazil-Colombia cooperation whose success is evidenced by statistics, especially from the Colombian government, on the liberation of areas contaminated by mines and the consequent reduction of accidents and victims with landmines. Brazilian military personnel have participated since the beginning, in 2006, of the Group of Inter-American Monitors in Colombia (GMI-CO) under the aegis of the Organization of American States (OAS). Also since 2015, they have participated in the Inter-American Technical Advisory Group in Colombia (GATI-CO), composed only of Brazilian officers. In addition, the Mission of Instructors and Advisers on Humanitarian Demining in Colombia (MIADH-CO) is underway, the result of an unprecedented bilateral cooperation agreement signed in 2018 after years of rapprochement between the two countries. In order to investigate the relevance of this strategic cooperation process, the contribution of humanitarian demining to Colombia's sovereignty and the articulation between Foreign Policy and Defense Policy also made up the object of study.