Using Colombia as a case study, James F. Rochlin and his international and multidisciplinary line up of Canadian and Colombian scholars, and activists working in the area of human rights, and the judiciary explore the extractive sector. Written in a clear and accessible style, Profits, Security and Human Rights presents practical lessons on how to promote both corporate security and human security in communities where the extractive sector operates in the Global South.

1. Introduction James Rochlin and Gustavo Gallón 2. Foreign Investment, Oil and Human Security: The Case of Pacific Rubiales Energy Corporation in Puerto Gaitán Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez (Dir.), Marco Velásquez, Sebastián Rubiano, and Ana María Muñoz 3. Ethnicity, Episteme and Gold: The Struggle for Human Security in Marmato James Rochlin 4. The Gold Trade and Human Security in Segovia and Remedios Adrián Restrepo Parra, Wilmar Martínez and Juan José Moncada 5. Open Pit Coal Mining in Northern Colombia: Institutional Weakness and the Supremacy of Capital Gustavo Rodríguez Albor, Jairo Agudelo Taborda and Ibelis Blanco Rangel 6. The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement: Imbalances in the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of Canadian Investors in Colombia Gus Van Harten 7. Analytical Conclusions Claudia Donoso and James Rochlin

James Rochlin is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan. He has published widely in the areas of Latin American Politics, Global Theory, and Critical Security.