Saevitia in the massacres of the colombian war

Starting from a description of the massacres in the region of Urabá between 1988 and 2002, this text formulates as a hypothesis that the appearance of saevitia (excessive cruelty) depends on factors such as war space/time, representations of the enemy, military asymmetry and insufficient use of poli...

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Autores:
Suárez, Andrés Fernando
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2008
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/50068
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/50068
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/43596/
Palabra clave:
Guerra
masacre
sevicia
enemigo
representaciones
war
massacre
saevitia (excessive cruelty)
enemy
representations
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Summary:Starting from a description of the massacres in the region of Urabá between 1988 and 2002, this text formulates as a hypothesis that the appearance of saevitia (excessive cruelty) depends on factors such as war space/time, representations of the enemy, military asymmetry and insufficient use of political approaches. According to the author, the characteristics of saevitia in the massacres during the recent decades in the Colombian conflict contrasts with the period known as The Violence (1946-1965), which not only reflects a change in the phenomenology of terror but in the nature of contemporary political violence.