Solarte Rodriguez abstract

I want to discuss the reconciliation concept starting from the experience of violence that lives the African descending communities on the Colombian Pacific Coast. Particularly, I want to analyze the possibilities and limits of the reconciliations theories used to solve conflicts, in perspective first of the narrations of these people and, in second place, from the horizon that opens the mimetic theory.

The reconciliations theories have become important in the Colombian conflict, because the government advances a peace agreement with the paramilitary forces. In this context, tolerance is controversial matter.

Many people said that the victims ought to tolerate the persons who had inflicted violence, once the warriors have made peace with the government. Many questions arise before this position. Is tolerance that victims assume an obligation to reconciliation constructed from above, from the powers that created the violence? Which role the truth revelations have in a reconciliation process? Is tolerance meaning the passive acceptance of a truth that hides warriors actions?

African descending people are the poorest in Colombia. Many of this people lived in the Pacific Coast. This is one of the wildest and rainiest places in the Earth. Between these people, war has produced an enormous confusion. Blood links was the traditional rule of these communities.

However, this war is really a business. Many economic interests are playing here. Then, many people of these communities took part of armed groups. Nevertheless, majorities continued trying to live in peace surrounded by these armed groups. In the middle of the wars delirium, many of the warriors used the violence against their own families. Then, victims ask for the meaning of tolerance, when the aggressors return to their communities, now disarmed in reason of the governmental peace agreement.

In this context our work from support to the Diocese of Quidbó occurs. This diocese had assumed the perspective of the human rights to make their work. However, the armed groups impose its violence based on the respect, promotion or defense of the human rights. The human right theory understood in the following sense: in a democratic state, the differences must be tolerated. Nevertheless, in this case, differences mean former aggressors impunity and victims perpetual spoliation.

Therefore, we asked for the meaning of the Gospel in this context. It results particularly difficult when we are trying to understand the Gospel based on mimetic theory. New problems emerge, particularly, the question for the political responsibility that followed to announce a Gospel that proposes reconciliation from undergoing God.

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