Honors Professor Restrepo recently published an article in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Perverse Incentives: Extrajudicial Killings in Colombia. The article analyzes contributing factors to the recently unveiled phenomena of “falsos positivos” or “false positives,” in which poor, unemployed citizens in Colombia have gone missing and are later found dead at altered crime scenes, framing them as military insurgents killed in combat. Professor Restrepo’s engaging article analyzes how the political environment of Colombia exposed a “Public Force perverse culture in which citizens are seen as internal enemies.”
