Inter-ethnic Territorial Planning for the Peacebuilding at Catatumbo, Norte de Santander (Colombia)

Abstract

This article develops an analysis of the territorial conflict between the indigenous Barí and the peasant organization ascamcat in Catatumbo, North of Santander. This conflict is expressed in the overlapping of the indigenous claim and the constitution of the Catatumbo Peasant Reserve Zone in Tibú, El Tarra, Teorama, Convención and El Carmen. The analysis frames in the post-conflict and the implementation of the Peace Agreement and its programs, especially those proposed in the Integral Rural Reform and on the Solution to the problem of illicit drug. This article presents the territorial conflict between indigenous and some peasant communities, which was evident a few years ago. And has been expressed in the development of Judgment T-052 of 2017 of the Constitutional Court. It is in this context that proposals for planning and inter-ethnic dialogue for building proposals for territory, taking into account this element as the fundamental axis of the transformations from the communities and peacebuilding.