El perdón como necesidad de los sobrevivientes del conflicto armado colombiano: diálogos entre Hannah Arendt y las mujeres del documental “Desde diversas orillas”

Abstract

This article analyzes forgiveness as a “need” of the victims of the Colombian armed conflict, based on the voice of women contained in the documentary video “From various shores” (2012). In addition, the philosophical and political thought of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) will be considered, who conceives forgiveness as a "need" proper to interaction in community, which enables respect and trust between human beings and allows remedy the acts that caused harm. This article used academic texts and stories from the women that appear in the aforementioned documentary. This investigative exercise has hermeneutics as its paradigm and method, seeking to understand the concept of forgiveness from different approaches and relationships with analogous terms, such as promise, forgetfulness, recognition of guilt, freedom, thought and reconciliation. This paper concludes by noting that forgiveness cannot be generalized (not all victims of the documentary accept this possibility), nor can it be ignored in transitional justice processes, academic debates and socio-political experiences.