(Un)Doing the Colombian Armed Conflict
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English Abstract: In 2005, Colombia enacted the Justice and Peace Law, which was a transitional framework for addressing legal status of demobilised members paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de [United Self-Defence Colombia] other armed groups. exchange providing intelligence on whereabouts bodies people these groups had kidnapped killed, prison sentences could be reduced. Forensic experts from Attorney General’s Office were in charge exhuming identifying bodies, placing them centre-stage as source scientific evidence, testimony authority based their presumed objectivity non-prejudicial approach. However, forensic knowledge, like all is situated, partial performative. Here, I attend to effects knowledge victims’ right truth, memory practices administration justice under Law. argue that co-produces conflict by producing victims perpetrators whose identities stories can at odds with accounts violence occurred. French En la loi sur et paix été promulguée en Colombie. Il s’agissait d’un cadre transitoire permettant régler le statut juridique des membres démobilisés du groupe paramilitaire [Autodéfenses unies Colombie] d’autres groupes armés. Cette prévoyait réduction peines échange renseignements l’emplacement corps personnes que ces avaient enlevées tuées. Des médico-légaux bureau procureur étaient chargés d’exhumer d’identifier les corps. Cela plaçait au centre scène tant preuves scientifiques, témoignages d’autorité, raison leur objectivité présumée approche non préjudiciable. Cependant, connaissance médico-légale, comme toute connaissance, est située, partielle Je m’intéresse ici aux effets connaissances médico-légales droit victimes à vérité, pratiques mémoire l’administration dans Paix soutiens coproduisent conflits produisant auteurs dont identités histoires peuvent être contradiction avec récits qui s’est produite.
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Anthropology
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0964-0282', '1469-8676']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2022.300303