Internally displaced people in Colombia, victims in permanent transition : ethical and political dilemas of reparative justice in the midst of internal armed conflict

Spanish version available in IDRC Digital Library: Desplazados, víctimas en permanente transición : repensar la relación conflicto-posconflicto en Colombia como reconstrucción ética y política de la sociedadThe victims, as members of a damaged society, and without reparation, participate in indirect paths of judicial truth and compensatory justice. This detailed book emphasizes that these are not enough to account for the experience of embodied damage (on the mental, physical and social body) imposed upon the victims. It is important to describe the way that reparation discourse can be the legitimating base for transitional justice mechanisms, and at the same time an illegitimating mechanism, if introduced as a simple conflict management tool. Documentary review for this research leads to the conclusion that the reparation of victim damages becomes the measure of sacrifice in favor of ‘reconciliation’