Autonomous challenges for thinking the peace and the indigenous people from Colombia

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Claudia Carrión Sánchez

Abstract

In the current negotiation process the Ethnical Commission for the Peace and the Defence of the Territorial rights [Comisión Étnica para la Paz y la Defensa de los Derechos Territoriales] proposes to build the Special Ethnic Chapter [Capítulo Étnico especial], included in the sixth point of the General Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Lasting Peace [Acuerdo General para la terminación del conflicto y la construcción de una paz estable y duradera], that allows to fortify the idea that the indigenous communities have about the autonomy as a way to distribute the power as well as a form of self-government, since the respect to this way of self-government implies the idea of an everlasting peace. 


That is why this reflection article presents arguments from a research based on what have been done in terms of indigenous autonomy in Colombia, but above all what has been the fight of the indigenous communities to find speakers in the country that allow to think different ways of making politics and self-government unlike the conventional western ways.

Author Biography

Claudia Carrión Sánchez, Centro de Educación para el Desarrollo —CED— de la Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Magíster en Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-UNAM, docente investigadora del Centro de Educación para el Desarrollo —CED— de la Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios.