Construcción de paz en Llano Verde: reflexiones situadas sobre la justicia transicional, la educación y las políticas públicas en el distrito de Aguablanca (Cali, Colombia)

Abstract

This research book is a result of the inter-institutional project “The construction of peace from below and transitional justice: an approach to the social processes carried out by young people from AFRODES for the vindication of the rights of the victims of the armed conflict in the Urbanization Casas de Llano Verde, commune 15 of the city of Cali”, financed by the Network of Universities for Innovation of Valle del Cauca (RUPIV), and endorsed by the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, the Universidad del Valle, the Lumen Catholic University Foundation Gentium and with the participation of the Association of Displaced Afro-Colombians (AFRODES Cali).

We start from the reflection on social practices for peacebuilding within the framework of the national discussion on the operationalization of transitional justice in the territories that make up the Aguablanca district. Although this topic is not widely studied, it has gained special relevance due to the interest in studying the organizational resources located with which possible and desirable coexistence is promoted in popular and low-income neighborhoods. Furthermore, such questioning takes place while four significant social events occur in the contemporary history of the city: (1) the signing of the peace agreements in 2016, (2) the social isolation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, (3 ) the massacre of the young people of Llano Verde, which occurred on August 11, 2020, and (4) the 2021 National Strike.