¿Repúblicas independientes o terroristas? Las narrativas de las políticas de seguridad en Colombia, en los gobiernos de Guillermo León Valencia (1962-1966) y Álvar Urive Vélez (2002-2010)
Thesis
This research demonstrates how government narratives are a fundamental element in the construction of national security policies and in the state's conception of conflict resolution. Through documentary research, which includes various types of information sources such as national and international press documents, official documents such as reports, reports, declassified documents and transcripts, audios and videos of speeches, two specific concepts are analysed that demonstrate the influence of narratives in the construction of security policies and models. On the one hand, the concept of ‘Independent Republics’, a term used to name the zones of communist peasant influence in the government of Guillermo León Valencia (1962-1966), which is analysed from the perspective of the dynamics of the National Front, the National Security Doctrine and the Alliance for Progress. On the other hand, ‘Terrorists’, a term used to classify insurgent groups in the government of Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2002-2010) in the context of the War on Drugs and the Global War on Terrorism. From the analysis of narratives as an element of security construction, this research takes up the theoretical position of Constructivism to analyse security studies and peacebuilding in Colombia from a sociological perspective.
