Modernity Vs. Insurgency. The Colombian guerrilla case

• Main Author: Enrique Ferrer-Corredor
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editorial Neogranadina 2014-01-01
• Series: Revista Latinoamericana de Bioética
• Subjects: modernity; insurgency; human rights; violence; peace; socio; genetic structure
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=127031381009

This article discusses the concepts of modernity and insurgency in order to develop the question of the causal relationship between a degree of modernity and the possibility of the emergence of the insurgency among the Colombian population. In this regard is to highlight how the construction of modernity emerges as a stage to shield the possibility of social marginalization , and this proposal is projected in a research framework to correlate with specific variables to conduct the empirical correlations established field of a hypothetical deductive mode. Thus a process of radical modernity and modernization is seen as the way to build peace in Colombia , to the extent that it contributes to justice , equity and forgiveness. A modernity from the construction of the subject , from the material conditions and especially since the construction of the national political debate , not in sight without structural changes in institutions .