¿Servicio militar obligatorio en Colombia, incorporación voluntaria o reclutamiento forzado?

Abstract

Military Service in Colombia since 1886 has had a mandatory treatment, which is supported by a broad policy framework and case law applicable to the current process of defining the military situation with the military. Therefore, in trying to delimit the powers and consequences that entail the "definition of the military situation" for young people who come of age and requiring that procedure to opt either for work or to access higher education. It is highlighted that Colombia is governed by the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2000 on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, respecting age 18 years or older to receive military training, and avoid forced recruitment considered as a criminal offense. In this sense, it is transcendental make a difference on the definition of the military situation voluntarily or if he really is a forced recruitment, as tax requisite for the completion of projects of life of men who meet most age. According to the above, if you really must define the approaches described are met in Law 48 of 1993, for the incorporation of young people to military service, or if it requires updating, to avoid the abuse of functions Military Forces described by the same (Constitution, 1991, art 216) of ss. Military Service in Colombia since 1886 has always had a compulsory treatment which is part of a detailed legal and jurisprudential framework for the process of defining the military situation, the dynamics of joining the military and the fundamental right to conscientious objection against this duty. In modern armies, it comes the need to meet their standing requirements of dwindling strength, and raised the dilemma between the use of conscription or voluntary recruitment and professionalization of force. 10 Both schemes have both advantages and disadvantages, which are determined largely by the characteristics in which conscription is implemented, as well as budget availability and technological level of each army.