Expectativas sociales, económicas y de seguridad de dos excombatientes de las FARC-EP ante la interrupción del ETCR de Vidrí - Río Arquía

Abstract

The Colombian peace process between the State and the FARC-EP promises to end a social and armed conflict of more than half a century between these two actors. To date, said process has achieved the disarmament and demobilization of almost all of the combatants, at the same time that it has given them a place in Colombian party politics and also fostered different spaces to rebuild their lives outside of the armed conflict and illegal. However, the present process, despite its signing and implementation, faces major problems which have compromised the well-being of the social fabric, especially that of ex-combatants, who face threats and selective assassinations by illegal groups, and even public and private actors. In order to give a place to the experiences of these individuals, the present research, using a phenomenological design, seeks to describe the expectations of two ex-combatants in the face of the interruption of the Territorial Training and Reincorporation Space (ETCR of Vidrí - Río Arquía in June 2018. To achieve this, a qualitative methodology was used, from which information was collected through semi-structured interviews, which were transcribed, coded and grouped by categories. The results reveal that the expectations of the participants, oriented towards the economic, social and security aspects have been affected due to the complexity of the social and armed conflict, to which the non-compliance of the parties in some of the points of agreement.