| ID | 103127 |
| Title Proper | Displacing, returning, and pilgrimaging |
| Other Title Information | the construction of social orders of violence and non-violence in Colombia |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Braun, Nora-Christine |
| Publication | 2009. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article analyses the repatriation of a group of internally displaced persons which took place in 2003 in north-western Colombia. Starting with the question of why, in spite of all reservations, the displaced families were taken back to a war zone, the author demonstrates how, on the one hand, the repatriation was part of a power game between the protagonists in the armed conflict and how, on the other, the return of the families was a way of resisting the violent social orders that the paramilitary, the army and the guerrillas had established in the region. The repatriation was the starting point for the creation of a social order based on non-violence. Thus it was the scene of a struggle about social orders or, to put it in another way, about the principles on which Colombian society should be based - a struggle fought out with violent and non-violent means. |
| `In' analytical Note | Civil Wars Vol. 11, No. 4; Dec 2009: p.455 - 476 |
| Journal Source | Civil Wars Vol. 11, No. 4; Dec 2009: p.455 - 476 |
| Key Words | Colombia ; Power Game ; Guerrillas ; Non - Violence ; Social Orders of Violence |