Introduction
| Autor | Andrés Dávila Ladrón de Guevara y Daniela Gómez Rivas |
| Cargo del Autor | Political scientist, Social Science Master's Degree and PhD, associate professor and Director of the Political Science Department at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana/Political scientist, with emphasis on conflict resolution and peace research |
| Páginas | 437-444 |
INTRODUCTION
Andrés Dávila Ladrón de Guevara2 y Daniela Gómez Rivas3
is book seeks to contribute to a task considered fundamental in the complex exercise that the Colom-
bian society is currently addressing. It is about the development of the non-international armed conict
context in which the country is immersed, specically in ve regions (Arauca, Cauca, Meta, Northeast
Antioquia and Southern Bolívar), in the period between 1998 and 2015, from an institutional historical
memory perspective. Such objective, which seems to be clear and simple, truly constitutes a challenge in
various dimensions.
If examined from the angle of what has been done, it rst implies to set out the context framed,
and helps explain the events that took place in these regions, but looking into the international and the
national aspects. It pertains to the establishment of the reasons and the references that led the dierent
actors, agents, sectors that have participated or have been aected to act and interact to produce the re-
sults that today seem to lead to a partial closure of this stage in the recent history of Colombia. erefore,
the 1998-2014 period covers two decades, where there is a clear transition from a challenging situation by
the organized illegal armed groups (GAOI) to a specially weakened State, as well as a signicant increase
in the deadliest and most broken practices of the conict, towards a gradual recovery of territorial control
and the dynamics of the conict by the Colombian State.
Secondly, this text is a proposal that tries to provide a comprehensive, broad and balanced expla-
nation of the complex set of factors, interactions, conditions, agents and mechanisms that have shaped
the framework and manifestations of violence of the conict, understood as prolonged and, at times, as
apparently untreatable, without immediate solution. Today, on the verge of a negotiation considered as
successful between the State and the oldest guerrilla with the largest size and impact, the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia - People’s Army (FARC-EP). If the current process ends successfully, Colom-
bia will be in a situation of post-conict, on a transition to peace, which requires, in order to give due
response to mass violence, a restorative proposal to resume, with all its implications, complex tasks of
truth, justice, reparation and reconciliation, which have aected the country for many reasons for little
more than a decade.
As a third approach, the context construction work aims at establishing explanatory and
analytical references that allow for the proper construction of memory and, in particular, of institutio-
2 Political scientist, Social Science Master’s Degree and PhD, associate professor and Director of the Political Science Depart-
ment at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations at Ponticia Universidad Javeriana.
3 political scientist, with emphasis on conict resolution and peace research.
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