Objective:

This study aims to establish civilian and military retired officials’ attitudes towards guerrillas demobilization from Bogotá (Col), for a well retirement.

Method:

This study scope was descriptive, it was conducted, comparing groups, 120 selected participants, between 40 and 60 years, based on a not probabilistic procedure distributed as follows: 60 military retired officials and 60 civilians residents from Bogotá; a questionnaire related to attitudes toward demobilized population of armed conflict, was used.

Results:

84.1 % of participants show a positive or neutral attitude, and statistical comparison higher than 0.05; this result, allows to say that both groups have a positive attitude towards demobilized guerrillas and there are not significant differences between civilian and military retired officials, residents in Bogotá.

Conclusion:

As a conclusion, a positive, neutral or negative attitude does not depend on the difference between being military retired official or civilian.

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