El concepto de víctima del conflicto armado en Colombia

Abstract

Colombia is currently immersed in a process of peace-building and comprehensive reparation of the victims on the occasion of the internal armed conflict, which is why we wanted to know how the situation of the victims has been in Colombia and the evolution that this category has undergone to Over the years, the research sought to determine whether the legal reforms and jurisprudential lines developed in Colombia between 1997 and 2019 that have modified the concepts of conflict in the armed conflict have been increasingly inclusive or, On the contrary, if more and more people have been excluded from access to the rights to know the truth, to justice and to reparation, for this we made a thorough analysis of the Colombian legislation on victims and analyzed the main laws that have generated changes in the concept of victim, then through a jurisprudential analysis we managed to establish a line in which we can identify and define the position of the constitutional court in recent years, we also studied and analyzed the definition of victims from international courts and bodies, achieving after studying successfully reaching the conclusions that we responded to our objectives in the investigation, being able to conclude that the concept of victims has been expanded with the evolution of our legislation and jurisprudence, so we can say that they had a progressive and favorable development for victims and all citizens, the interpretation of the rules suffered by those who are victims does not carry out a de literally and restrictively if we do not do it from a more flexible position defining from an operational side taking into account social, legal, political aspects, among others, thus achieving a hermeneutic expansion of the legal concept of victim so that they guarantee as much as possible the enjoyment effective victims' rights.