Reconciliación y paz territorial en Colombia

Reconciliación y paz territorial en Colombia

Colombia approached through several negotiations to an end to the conflict on several occasions in 2016, until it reached an agreement for a “Stable and Lasting Peace” as a result of more than four years of negotiations with FARC-EP. However, as evidenced by the result of the plebiscite for the endorsement of the agreements with this guerrilla group, Colombia retains great social and poli­tical culture liabilities related to structural and cultural violence, which prevent the transition to a reconciled society with the capacity for management and conflict resolution, oriented towards the construction of territorial peace and the consolidation of a peace culture.

Colombian society lacks a dynamic and robust public policy of reconciliation, from the local and territorial levels to the national level, thus preventing the different sectors from coming together in peace-building dynamics, aimed at advancing on the road to national reconciliation.

Based on this panorama, this article seeks to answer the question: What territorial factors can contribute to the construction on Colombia’s reconciliation? For this reason, it illustrates how the territorial dynamics contribute elements in the construction of national reconciliation.