Social protest. Act of delinquency or symptom of the impossibility of peace in Colombia

Abstract

This article is a reflective work whose central objective is to make a critical reading of the approaches that the social sciences have made to the phenomenon of sociocultural violence in Colombia, particularly to violence associated with social protest. It was developed from the contributions made by social theories such as: psychoanalysis applied to social phenomena, the phenomenology of perception, collective memory, the psychology of liberation, human development and the epistemology of complexity. In this sense, the work is nourished by the stakes that explain the social from its two aspects: From the specific, case by case, where the subjective prevails over the objective. From the structural, systemic and complete aspects of the phenomenon. Based on these sources, the article reflects on the question of the genesis and nature of the protest and violence in the streets. The question is whether vandalism associated with protest is a crime problem or, on the contrary, is a structural problem of bad coexistence and the impossibility of national reconciliation. It also reflects on the effects that it has brought to the consolidation of a stable and lasting peace in the country, thinking about the problem of violence in one way or another. Among the main findings of the work was the fact that the uninterrupted experience of violence in the history of the country reminds us that the chapter of the internal armed conflict has not been closed, that the wounds of the war has not been healed. That the violence in the country has not disappeared, it has not healed; on the contrary, it remains perennial and mutant.