Pedagogía de la memoria como herramienta para la reconstrucción de narrativas en torno al asesinato de líderes y lideresas sociales tras la firma de los acuerdos de paz en Colombia.

Abstract

One of the most important events in Colombia’s recent history is the Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Lasting Peace, signed between the national government and the guerrilla group Farc-Ep on September 26th, 2016. This agreement sought to end an armed conflict that, for nearly sixty years, produced 220,000 homicides, 8 million displaced people, 30,000 kidnappings and 82,000 forced disappearances (CNMH, 2018). However, following the signing of these agreements, a wave of persecution and socio-political violence against social leaders of the country has intensified and has claimed the lives of more than 800 leaders, the reality of these events becomes more complex taking into account the systematism of the crimes, the position of the country’s government and media to face this problem. In the midst of this scenario of socio-political violence in a post-conflict period in Colombia following the signing of the peace accords, it is opportune to ask for the reconstruction of the memory of the facts starting from the victims in order to maintain the historical memory of the same ones and to avoid the repetition. Likewise, memory as an opportunity to confront the discourses of political currents that try to justify these crimes and keep these facts in oblivion. The present research paper investigates the reconstruction of the historical memory of the murders of social leaders and this wave of socio-political violence in the country based on the narratives of leaders currently threatened whose families also have been victims of violence, integrating as a thematic and research interest two elements: the reconstruction of narratives based on the strategies of the pedagogy of memory and the struggles for memory in the face of the state and media discourses that have naturalized such crimes in the Colombian political ecosystem.