Peace building from the actions of the National Police for the reconstruction of the social fabric of the Department of Sucre Analysis of the context

Abstract

During more than 50 years Colombia has been a victim of various forms of armed conflicto that have caused massacres, torture, disappearances and displacement. Causing in the Caribbean region and in the department of Sucre conditions of multidimensional poverty because of the various Unsatisfied Basic Needs and illiteracy (DANE, 2018), mainly in rural territories and where the absence of the State and the impossibility of the authorities to recover order caused a break in the confidence of civil society towards institutions such as the National Police. The research is of a mixed descriptive type based on Hernández et al. (2014) and has the purpose of developing the theoretical and methodological foundation related to the construction of peace from the actions of the National Police. The population are the 26 municipalities of the department that were victims of the armed conflict, the National Police and especially the Rafael Núñez School of Carabineros –ESRAN; the sample corresponds to the municipality of Ovejas, selected based on criteria such as access routes, area of influence, impact of the armed conflict in the territory and the presence of grassroots social organizations. The data collection technique is content analysis and a review of National Police documents, reports from organizations, public records, databases of the victims' unit, scientific information and physical and/or digital files reported by the territorial entities was carried out. The results of this research correspond to the analysis of the context as a baseline for the in situ work.