Nunca más. Elementos para no repetir el conflicto armado en Colombia

Escobar Gómez, Julián Andrés | 2019-12-08

The main objective of this article is to unveil the con-cern of Non-Repeating the Armed Conflict in Colombia expressed in the Final Peace Agreement between the National Government of Colombia and the Revolution-ary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP). The two versions of the agreement, published on August 24, 2016 (before the peace plebiscite) and November 24, 2016 (after the plebiscite and with the agreement of the opponents), are taken as the unit of study. In terms of methodology, the technique of content analysis based on reflexive and argumentative processes is applied. The result highlights how in both versions there is a very clear intention not to repeat the armed conflict in Colombia. The thesis of Non-Repeating the Armed Conflict concludes that eliminating all the conditions of possibility that originated it and perpetuated it for so long. In other words, not to repeat it is to overcome it.