Cruce de caminos

Abstract

First of all, this volume opens with a text in which Professor Marta Bustos establishes models to castigate the lendable ideas that exist regarding culture and peace. For many years there has been an instrumentalization of art and, in a broader environment, it has been considered in the abstract that the levels of well-being of Colombian society lie in the number of civilized injections that we can apply to the social fabric. In the present text, a tour is made of the evolution in our history of norms, the steps have been taken to understand the way in which cultural processes are integrated into the need for "the longed-for peace", as it has been called in many documents. official and academic reflections. The big problem with a canonical idea of ​​culture is that it ends up becoming a thousand-headed monster that ultimately loses the deep resources that derive its essence from it. Peace needs culture in rhetorical terms but, when it begins to be implemented, it seems to disappear in the ambiguity of the desks. According to Marta Bustos, the new definitions of the different criteria of culture and their relationship with the reconciliation processes in Colombia began to be designed systematically from the 1990s. In the text, you can see different stages lived in the governments from the decades of transition to the new millennium until, as the peace process gained ground, the idea of ​​culture began to be systematized.