Together after war while the war goes on: victims, ex-combatants and communities in three Colombian cities
Colombia has been undergoing a massive disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) process accompanied by various transitional justice measures in which victims of the conflict and demobilized combatants have become key political actors. While there is much talk about reconciliation, little...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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International journal of transitional justice
Year: 2012, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 525-546 |
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| Summary: | Colombia has been undergoing a massive disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) process accompanied by various transitional justice measures in which victims of the conflict and demobilized combatants have become key political actors. While there is much talk about reconciliation, little is known about local interaction between victims, ex-combatants and their surrounding communities or about the connections between these micro-level realities and macro-level transitional justice and peacebuilding processes. This article presents the findings from a 2010 field study conducted in four neighborhoods of the cities of Bogotá, Medellín and Valledupar. It argues that everyday experiences of coexistence in these areas are mainly conditioned by local factors, such as poverty and insecurity, and by the past experiences of individual victims, ex-combatants and other citizens in the midst of Colombia’s ongoing, nonethnic conflict. The connections between these coexistence situations and macro-level transitional justice and DDR programs, however, are much less clear. |
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| ISSN: | 1752-7724 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ijtj/ijs022 |