Conflict and post-conflict from the Colombian territorial periphery

Abstract

The purpose of the following lines is to assert, as a research hypothesis, the peripheralization experienced by the Colombian armed conflict in recent years. As a consequence of the scope of the Democratic Security Policy and Plan Colombia, but also because of the particular impact of paramilitarism, a centrifugal tendency has been carried out in terms of public security but also of the violence derived from the armed conflict. This peripherialization poses an important challenge to the Colombian State, above all, because a hypothetical deactivation of the conflict with the FARC, and possibly with the ELN, within the current dialogues of Havana, will only be possible if it is advocated to overcome certain structural conditions of violence that, today, continue to be unresolved. In the absence of this circumstance, the sense of peace in Colombia may remain limited and confers on a significant part of its territory a logic in which the presence of irregular armed groups and the violent translation that this implies continues to be a constant away from any hint of overcoming.