Región y reconciliación: claves de política pública desde lo local

The organization's Vicepresidency of Development has a deliberate intention to work towards the construction of convivencia, reconciliation, and peace. This effort has been ongoing since the analysis of possible agendas to overcome the conflict, accompaniment to processes of reintegration of ex-combatants, and accompaniment to different initiatives of the legislative agenda on human rights and peace construction. The concept of reconciliation has been a permanent concern for the Fundación Social, despite the difficulties it generates due to its relationship with forgiveness and forgetting or its distance from the persistence of the armed conflict in the country. The organization has maintained an investment in the concept of reconciliation as a strategy to think about the post-conflict, taking into account the promotion of the rights to truth, justice, and reparations. The results of this reflection were consolidated in the GUIDE TO RECONCILIATION: KEYS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A HORIZON IN COLOMBIA (2006), one of whose main contributions is the proposal that each organization, institution, and citizen construct their own definition of reconciliation from the reflection on the proper exercise of rights. For the Fundación Social, the definition adopted in the work advanced by the Social Projects Directly reiterates that reconciliation is a process of construction or reconstruction of links, the reorientation of antagonistic relationships to cooperative relationships, the generation of trust between citizens and towards institutions. In 2009, the Fundación Social, through its Area of Incidence in Public Policy, initiated the project MODEL FOR THE PARTICIPATORY FORMULATION OF LOCAL PUBLIC POLICIES ON CONVIVENCE AND RECONCILIATION, with the financing of the International Organization for Migration, with the objective of providing methodological tools for the collective construction of public policies from the local level that favor reconciliation and convivence in six selected regions: Antioquia, Tolima, Nariño, Catatumbo, Montes de María, and Valle del Cauca. The work consisted of the application of the methodological proposal developed with specific communities, accompanied by a quantitative study on the perceptions of Colombians regarding reconciliation. This study is the fourth of a series of surveys directed by the Incidence in Public Policy direction, aimed at measuring the impact on collective imaginaries about truth, justice, reparations, and non-repetition measures. The publication that is presented to the reader interested in these matters, collects precisely the results of the implementation of the project in these regions. The interest is to promote in various actors and territories, through consolidated experiences, the realization of actions in favor of reconciliation that arise from the base.