COLLECTIVE REPARATION PATH FOR PEACE AND MEMORY

Located in Santander, Colombia.

December 2022

The senior project proposes an alternative repairing route for peace and memory in the municipalities along the Suárez River, through commemorative public spaces that face the invisibilization of the multiple conflicts that have struck the territory in recent decades.

Understanding the silent violence that transformed the territory is fundamental to the analysis and what leads to a first territorial proposal, the “collective reparation path for peace and memory.” Based on the above, a reflection is generated around the architecture of memory, how this can deal the tragedy of naturalizing the war and let see what happened in the territory.

The collective reparation path contributes to this whole process of recognition, significance and healing for the territory and its inhabitants. Strategic spaces are located that have been the basis for the connection of these sectors that make up the journey and provide spaces for recognition and peace.

Colombia has been the victim, for more than sixty years, of the internal conflict that has generated the increase in numbers in internal displacement, kidnappings, torture, abuses, among others; that have taken the lives of many inhabitants throughout the nation. Similarly, vulnerability, socio-territorial deterioration and lack of State presence and intervention in Colombia’s rural territories have created a habitat with precarious conditions for the population.

Ecorregión Suárez Chicamocha

It contains part of the departments of Santander and Boyacá

General Issue

Forced displacement by violence.

They came from the south of Cesar, South of Bolívar, North of Santander and Northeast of Antioquia

From Magdalena Medio Santandereano and Barrancabermeja

Problem

The forgetfulness that has constrained almost to the oblivion of the violent acts that the territory of the river Suarez has suffered.

+4.9 Millon people internally and forced displaced

+90Thousand missing people

+27k victims of kidnapping

2.552 massacres between 1980 - 2014

23.161 mass murders

82% of the victims of the armed conflict were documented on the department.

Longitudinal elevations