Abstract

JARAMILLO MARIN, Jefferson. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROLE OF THE POLICE DURING THE CONFLICT AND POST-CONFLICT: THE CASES OF GUATEMALA, EL SALVADOR, NORTHERN IRELAND, AFGHANISTAN AND REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN. rev.relac.int.estrateg.segur. [online]. 2015, vol.10, n.1, pp.181-202. ISSN 1909-3063.

In this article, discusses five emblematic cases of countries that have experienced full or partial transitions from irregular armed confrontation to a state of relative safety. The cases analyzed were Afghanistan, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Salvador and southern Sudan. This approach was made on the basis of review of documentary sources and secondary under a comparative perspective. The revised sources allow understand, in the cases analyzed, the need to break with the symbolic and materials structures that contributed to or were part of the violence against civilians. In each of the cases analyzed, the police had questionable actions during the armed confrontation, but it was also subject to various reforms in the transition period to the normalization of the security situation. This discussion paper document provides keys to validate, in quantitative and qualitative research subsequent (discussion in subsequent exercise of qualitative and quantitative inquiry), the role that the police have had in the Colombian conflict and what is expected of them in a post-conflict phase.

Keywords : Armed Conflict; Armed Forces; colombian Conflict; national Police; Public Forces; Post-Conflict.

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