Abstract

RAMIREZ, MARÍA CLEMENCIA. ARMED CONFLICT RECONFIGURATIONS IN TRANSITION PERIODS: NEW AND OLD DYNAMICS OF NON-STATE ARMED GROUPS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE CIVILIAN POPULATIONS DAILY LIFE IN PUTUMAYO (COLOMBIA). Maguare [online]. 2022, vol.36, n.2, pp.161-204.  Epub Dec 23, 2022. ISSN 0120-3045.  https://doi.org/10.15446/mag.v36n2.102864.

From the perspective of the longue durée and the anthropological study of conflict, this article analyzes post-agreement conditions and events in the department of Putumayo, including the 2006 demobilization of the paramilitaries and that of the guerrillas in 2017 after the peace agreement. Based on documents produced by non-state armed groups, members of the armed forces, and community leaders, it examines the insertion of the armed conflict into the daily life of the civilian population. It makes visible the alternative social orders imposed by non-state armed groups in the 1980s and 90s. It analyzes the ruptures and continuities of these social orders in the present critical conjuncture, and the armed groups' legitimation of their actions through the adaptation and resignification of previous narratives, by means of which they justified their respective missions. It also explores impacts on the civilian population and the responses of that population to the current reconfiguration of the armed conflict.

Keywords : Anthropology of conflict; post-agreement; forced eradication; FARC dissidents and recidivists; substitution of crops used for illegal purposes; Putumayo; Colombia.

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