Abstract
Despite the fact that it is not the only country facing critical social problems related to inequalities, Colombia is also the only one in Latin America facing an internal armed conflict that has lasted over 50 years. Extremely diversified violence has reached astonishing levels of barbarity in different sectors of urban society but, above all, in rural areas. However, a new horizon of hope is being felt in the country with the beginning of peace talks in 2012 in Havana (Cuba). While receiving broad national and international support, these peace talks, while monopolized by Fuerzas Armadas evolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) are not addressing the root causes of violence. In this regard, the over-politicizing of the concept of peace within Colombia has tackled the issue of national reconciliation, by reducing it to dichotomizing discourses.
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Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army).
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In Spanish, asistencialismo refer to the successive tentative to tackle violence, inequalities and poverty with providing immediate solutions without thinking in the long term, favouring a culture of dependence within the population. The most common example is the providing of food to rural population by the government, political candidates or local and international NGOs. This has been highly criticized for reducing the agency of local populations in peacebuilding and social transformation.
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Küng has clarified (2014, p. 451) that global ethics is related to concept of ethos as the fundamental attitude and moral conviction of each person, rather than ethics is a conceptual system about attitudes, values and moral human laws. Ethics is more than mere law and right.
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Argüello Parra, A., Anctil Avoine, P. (2017). From “Polymorphism of Violence” to the Complexities of Peace: Towards an Integral Dignity in Colombia. In: Sieh, E., McGregor, J. (eds) Human Dignity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56005-6_14
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