El caribe colombiano: entre la construcción de paz y la persistencia del conflicto

Abstract

Four of the 16 sub-regions prioritized for the implementation of Territorial Approach Development Programs (TADP) are located in the Colombian Caribbean region. TADP emerged from the Peace Agreement signed between the Colombian Government and the former FARC guerrilla group in order to transform the conditions of the territories that suffered the armed conflict. However, some of these sub-regions still present expressions of armed violence that could impede the achievement of territorial peace and, on the contrary, could contribute to perpetuate these conditions of armed conflict. The objective of this paper intends to analyze these four subregions from a comparative study through three analysis variables: presence of illegal rents, presence of armed actors and degree of affectation originated from the war, all during the January-September period of 2018. The authors found that although sub-regions such as Sierra Nevada-Perijá and Montes de María do not face important problems of violence, there are consensual challenges that can delay and even sabotage the implementation of TADP. On the other hand, the sub-regions southern Córdoba and southern Bolivar, due to their extension, have fewer consensual challenges,
but a panorama of violence that would make it even more complex to move towards the post-conflict
due to the presence of actors who will seek to sabotage the process (Clan del Golfo, Los Caparrapos and Disidents from FARC guerrilla).