Abstract

VILLARRAGA SARMIENTO, Álvaro. Recent Historical Experiences of Ex-Combatant reintegration in Colombia. colomb.int. [online]. 2013, n.77, pp.107-140. ISSN 0121-5612.

In the absence of a comprehensive peace agreement that enables the end of Colombia's armed conflict, there have been peace agreements with several guerrillas' organizations such as the M19, the EPL and others. Despite this, hostilities persist other guerrillas (FARC and ELN). At the same time, there was an agreement with paramilitary groups to achieve their deactivation. As a result, in the last decades there have been disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) experiences that have notorious differences according to the nature of the different armed groups, the processes carried out with each of them and their circumstances. However, the reintegration process is very similar for all participants in terms of the services offer by the institution in charged of the reintegration phase. The main difference of these DDR processes is related to the collective political aspiration hoped for by the insurgent forces following their insertion as a civilian group within legality. Simultaneously, the individual desertion and reintegration process comes up as a different case due to its application outside of a peace process frame. This individual dynamic cannot be seen as a demobilization process as the recent governments have assumed it.

Keywords : Colombia's armed conflict; demobilization; disarmament; reintegration; peace process in Colombia.

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