Law and Violence in the Colombian Post-Conflict: State-Making in the Wake of the Peace Agreement - Núm. 67, Enero 2019 - Revista de Estudios Sociales - Libros y Revistas - VLEX 772421037

Law and Violence in the Colombian Post-Conflict: State-Making in the Wake of the Peace Agreement

AutorJulieta Lemaitre Ripoll - Esteban Restrepo Saldarriaga
CargoSJD. Adjunct Professor, Law School, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) - JSD. Associate Professor, Law School, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
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Law and Violence in the Colombian Post-Conflict: State-Making
in the Wake of the Peace Agreement *
Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll** – Esteban Restrepo Saldarriaga***
Received date: October 29, 2018 · Acceptance date: November 13, 2018 · Modication date: November 30, 2018
https://doi.org/10.7440/res67.2019.01
How to cite: Lemaitre Ripoll, Julieta and Esteban Restrepo Saldarriaga. 2019. “Law and Violence in the Colombian Post-Conict:
State-Making in the Wake of the Peace Agreement”. Revista de Estudios Sociales 67: 2-16. https://doi.org/10.7440/res67.2019.01
* This article originates in the workshop “Thinking about Law and Violence in the Colombian Post-Conflict with Jean and John
Comaroff” held at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, D.C., Colombia) on October 25 and 27, 2017. The authors wish to thank Jean and
John Comaroff and María del Rosario Acosta López, Alejandra Azuero, Diana Bocarejo, Lina Buchely, Juana Dávila, Luis Eslava, Carlos
Manrique, Meghan Morris, Carolina Olarte Olarte, Catalina Vallejo and Juan Pablo Vera for an illuminating and insightful discussion.
** SJD. Adjunct Professor, Law School, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Judge at the Justice Chambers of the Special Jurisdiction
for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz) (Colombia). Latest publications: “Manuel Quintín Lame: Legal Thought as Minor Jurispru-
dence.” Law Text Culture 21: 76-99, 2017; “Humanitarian Aid and Host State Capacity: The Challenges of the Norwegian Refugee
Council in Colombia.” Third World Quarterly 39 (3): 544-559, 2018.
*** JSD. Associate Professor, Law School, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Latest publications: “Traducciones inevitables.” Revista
del Centro de Estudios Constitucionales 4: 111-168, 2017; “La constitución sentimental: prostitución, trabajo sexual y trata de personas
en Colombia.” Isonomía 48: 37-67, 2018.
ABSTRACT | Colombia’s 2016 Peace Agreement with the FARC guerrilla extends beyond the end of the war, and
beyond measures for the disarmament, demobilization and reincorporation of former guerrillas. A large po rtion
of the agreement is dedicated to the extension of the presence of the Colombian State into those areas of
the country formerly under FARC control. The premise behind this extension, shared by Colombian elites
as much as by former guerrilla leaders, is that if the State remains absent, then the areas will be occupied
by criminal organizations interested in controlling the FARC cocaine trade, and, more generally, the vast
and sparsely populated territories will further descend into barbarism. This premise resonates with a long
arc of persistent aspiration for a national identity that is shaped by the opposition between civilization and
barbarism. The expansion of civilization has, especially since the transformations eected by Colombia’s 1991
Constitution, been increasingly identied with the expansion of the rule of law, and hence with law’s mythical
powers to order society and control barbarism. Violence is then equated to lawlessness, and the remedy for
violence equated with the expansion of the Estado social de derecho, the State that embodies the rule of law
in the Colombian Constitution. The foundational narrative of civilization versus barbarism, inherited by the
hopes placed on the rule of law, and on the recipes for State-building, by the 2016 Peace Agreement, continues
to obscure the continuities between law and violence, and particularly the fact that the execution of legal
institutions in formerly “lawless” territories continues to enact the violent moment of the adoption of legality.
Both theoretical and empirical explorations of the present process of the expansion of the Colombian State
requires critical examination of the hopes vested on law, a critical examination that needs to engage with
the many continuities between law and violence explored in contemporary political philosophy, and developed
in Jean and John Comaro’s ethnography. The productivity of this approach is highlighted in the essays in
this dossier, which share the impulse to interrupt the foundational narrative of civilization and barbarism that
remains in the institutions of the present post-conict endeavor.
KEYWORDS | Thesaurus: civilization; peace. Author: barbarism; Jean and John Comaro; law and violence;
post-conict; state-making; territorial peace
Derecho y violencia en el posconflicto colombiano: formación y transformación del Estado tras el Acuerdo
de Paz
RESUMEN | El Acuerdo de Paz suscrito con las FARC en 2016 extiende sus efectos más allá de la terminación de
la guerra y de las medidas de desarme, desmovilización y reincorporación de las antiguas fuerzas guerrilleras.
Una parte importante de este acuerdo tiene que ver con la ampliación de la presencia del Estado a aquellas

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