Memoria histórica militar en Colombia

Abstract

The next paper tries to approach in a descriptive way the Military Historical Memory in Colombia so it can determine which will be its’ conformation and establishes a possible categorization of the same by using critical in-depth and semi-structured interview analysis, getting to identify common places that could establish bounds and scopes both temporality and social space. In this sense, in first place, it made a conceptual and theorist approximation to the historical memory to introduce the memory levels. Later, in a second place, it made an analysis of the national and international legal tools of the Right to Memory and especially, it puts emphasis on the Military Forces Duty of Memory as a public organism. Finally, from a possible categorization it will be tried to determine the institutional memory levels, with its’ potentialities and limitations, to answer what military historical memory is being built in Colombia to preserve its’ identity and integrity.