Aranguren Romero Managing Testimony and Administrating Victims

Colombia’s Transitional Scenario under the Justice and Peace Act
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-45895-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 130 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice

This book analyzes the implementation of Law 975 in Colombia, known as the Justice and Peace Law, and proposes a critical view of the transitional scenario in Colombia from 2005 onwards. The author analyzes three aspects of the law: 1) The process of negotiation with paramilitary groups; 2) The constitution of the Group Memoria Histórica (Historic Memory) in Colombia and 3) The process of a 2007 law that was finally not passed. The book contains interviews with key actors in the justice and peace process in Colombia. The author analyses the contradictions, tensions, ambiguities and paradoxes that define the practices of such actors. This book highlights that a critical view of this kind of transitional scenario is indispensable to determine steps towards a just and peaceful society.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aranguren Romero, Juan Pablo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Origins of Victimization and the Administration of War in Colmbia
Victims CountOrigins, Antecedents, Caues or Triggers?Exception as DemocracyThe State in Permanent Emergency
2. Justice and Peace in times of Impunity and War
Reinsertion without Demobilization: From the AUCs to the BACRIMsVictimization in Post-Conflict Narratives
3. Voice, Testimony, Truth, and Memory
The Memory of Victims: Between Silence and SilencingThe Memory of the Perpetrators and Judicial TruthThe Limits of EnunciationHistorical Memory without Judicial TruthThe Emblematic Status of Testimony and Public MemoryFrom Pain to Knowledge: The Limits of Representation
4. Maintaining Exclusion
5. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Juan Pablo Aranguren Romero is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Andes, Colombia. He holds an MA in Social Anthropology and a PhD in Social Sciences. His research focuses on the intersections of body, suffering, and political violence. Aranguren is author of Cuerpos al límite: tortura, subjetividad y memoria en Colombia ( 2016) and Las inscripciones de la guerra en el cuerpo de los jóvenes combatientes (2011).