Contexts and Conditions

Abstract

Diversity was essential to the nature of the conciliation process. It also described the settings and situations where conciliations were held because the sites varied widely. For example, picture a conciliation held out in the yard of the city offices under a tree on a hot sunny day on the coast in Barranquilla. Imagine conciliations held in a well-used pavilion provided by the Chamber of Commerce in Bogota, where the noise of all the hearings and personal conversations became a cacophony. Think about conciliations in dim city offices in Turbo, Uraba, in a town hall less than a quarter of a century old, but already losing the battle against dirt and decay. Visualize conciliators waiting in pleasant offices on the edge of a small city in the Cauca valley, with no clients because their location was too far away from those most in need of their services. And still other conciliations were held in homes, on patios, or in public spaces throughout the country.KeywordsSocial ContractArmed ConflictTransitional JusticeDisplace PersonCity OfficeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.