Abstract

SALAS-SALAZAR, Luis Gabriel. Armed conflict and territorial configuration: elements for the consolidation of the peace in Colombia. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2016, vol.26, n.2, pp.45-57. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v26n2.57605.

A Colombia is a State that has been historically characterized for registering multiple conflicts and diverse forms of violence. Achieving the comprehension of these conflicts and its impact in the territorial configuration is a true challenge for the consolidation of a post talk's period of conflict. The present is an article of consideration, its purpose, from a geographical perspective, offer to the reader the elements related to the armed conflict that has intervened in the configuration of Colombia's territory. The found evidence, resulting from correlational space analysis and the application of geo-statistical methods to data concerning the armed activities and the violence of the participants in the armed conflict in the period between 1986-2015. They allow the assertion that the power relations in the context of the armed conflict between the forces of the State, the involved guerrillas, FARC and ELN, as those of the paramilitary, and in the last years the criminal bands, are reflected over the territory in a differentiated manner. The territory configuration, is the result of the power relations of the participants in the armed conflict in which they intervened, under geostrategic logics.

Keywords : Colombia; armed conflict; territorial configuration; post-peace talks; territorial peace.

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