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Absent Peace in Colombia: A Study of Transition Discourses in Former Combatants
Univ Surcolombiana, Colombia.
Univ Chile, Chile.
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
2020 (English)In: Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, ISSN 1079-2457, E-ISSN 1554-8597, Vol. 26, no 4, article id 20190042Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The Colombian State and subversive groups have made attempts to build peace by the establishment of accords since the 1980s. Recently, the signature of a peace accord by former president Santos and the FARC-EP leadership in 2016, has come along with changes in the interpretative frameworks of the conflict and the emergence of new institutions, forms of subjectivity and collective meanings around peace. Nowadays, Colombia is in the transition from being a country at war to a peaceful nation. In this transition, the discourse of victims and state representatives about peace and conflict are predominant in the literature. This article characterizes the simultaneously coexisting discourses about peace and conflict in former combatants. We conducted a discourse analysis of 19 semi-structured interviews with former members of paramilitaries and guerrillas. The results are clustered into two categories: absent peace, in which peace is seen as the lack of something that was missed and lost; and the indefinite war, where peace can be hardly imagined due to the permanence of conflict and longevity of violence. The overlooked angle of the narratives of combatants about peace and conflict is discussed, and the findings are suggested as potential guidelines to navigate displaced and divergent accounts of peace and conflict in transition societies.

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Walter de Gruyter, 2020. Vol. 26, no 4, article id 20190042
Keywords [en]
peace; Colombian armed conflict; transitional societies; social imaginary; former combatants
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-172424DOI: 10.1515/peps-2019-0042ISI: 000599748800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85089827372OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-172424DiVA, id: diva2:1515583
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Funding Agencies|CONICYT-FONDECYT Postdoctorate 2017 at the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FACSO) University of Chile [3170814]

Available from: 2021-01-10 Created: 2021-01-10 Last updated: 2021-01-13Bibliographically approved

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