Abstract

JAIME-SALAS, Julio. The Promised Land: Fractures, Permanences, and Absences in the Configuration of Liberal Peace Projects in Colombia 1991-2022. Ágora U.S.B. [online]. 2024, vol.24, n.2, pp.600-631.  Epub Aug 01, 2024. ISSN 1657-8031.  https://doi.org/10.21500/16578031.6884.

This article aims to unveil the conditions of possibility and configuration of liberal peace projects in Colombia in the period from 1991 to 2022 through the National Development Plans and presidential inauguration speeches. For this purpose, a qualitative methodology of post-structur alist-decolonial cut called decolonial Situational Analysis, which corre sponds to the fourth generation of Grounded Theory, is approached. This study concludes that it has been configured and made possible through various conser vative, orthodox, and realist gradations of the liberal global consensus of peace, a colo nial pacific governmentality, which operates with various rationalities that hybridize and coexist with forms of coloniality of knowledge, power, nature, and being in order to pro duce the liberal creole peace project of the present as a metaphor of the promised land.

In this way, “the promised land” as pacifying governmentality or peace as government, operates as a multidimensional (knowledge, power, being, nature) teleological neocolo nial device, which establishes a regime of truth about what can be said, seen, and done about peace in Colombia. Thus, it becomes a challenge for the popular social movement, the agendas of the ongoing peace processes, and the education for peace, to denatural ize the epistemic status of the liberal peace projects in which the present is immersed and to dispute the radical imagination of the future armored by the architecture of the global neoliberal peace order, which threatens life.

Keywords : Coloniality; Liberal Peace; Governmentality, and Development.

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