De la banalité de la violence à la terreur

Le Cas Colombien

Bibliographic Data

ID6054229
AuthorsDaniel Pecaut (corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume24-25
Issue24-25
Publication date1997-05-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultures & conflits/Cultures et conflits (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1157-996X • E-ISSN: 1777-5345
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/conflits.2169
OpenAlexW2060995933
LanguageFR
Citations received8
References cited1

The difficulty to think events by giving them a meaning is manifest in Colombia. Though it once was thought under the sign of the 1940s Violencia prolongation, violence has today become common place. This does not occur without consequence to the individual torn apart between multiple tensions. Trapped between several networks, condemned to live from day to day, one still expects « help » from the State. « There is no synthesis between these multiple tensions » for Daniel Pécault. As a consequence, the only temporal constancy for the individual remains in « the story of a trajectory leading him from one situation to the other ». In the same way does public opinion lose all capacity to generate an emotion when faced to the multiplicity of the forms of violence. Violence therefore appears in Colombia as a mode of operation corroding the institutions themselves, without anyone or anything able to impose its will without being a new protagonist in a generalised war that is meant to last according to all expectation

Epistemology · Humanities · Political science · Sociology · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia · Philosophy

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