Abstract
Abstract This chapter interweaves three historical accounts, offering a brief history of violence in Colombia, an overview of the 2016 peace process between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and an analysis of the development of the institutional framework of transitional justice in the country. Rather than providing a comprehensive history of every aspect of the armed conflict, the chapter concentrates on key turning points that shaped the transitional justice process, which took shape before the conclusion of a formal peace accord. The analysis focuses on the institutional bureaucracy of victimhood in Colombia, analysing both laws and policies pertaining to those recognized as victims and the normative shifts that allowed them to come into force. These include a shift from mobilization around the mantle of displacement towards the category of ‘victim’, and a transition from the language of disasters and development to the register of rights.
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