La Naturaleza como Causa, Factor de Persistencia y Víctima del Conflicto Colombiano en la Subregión Sierra Nevada-Perijá-Zona Bananera

Abstract

This article utilizes Content Analysis to examine the relationship between conceptions of Nature and the internal armed conflict and associated violences, within the framework of overcoming the Nature/Culture dichotomy debate, taking the cattle ranching Hacienda and its metamorphosis according to the productive logic of the era as the geohistorical space. To this end, the roles played by Nature in the conflict, specifically in the Sierra Nevada-Perijá-Banana Zone subregion, were examined based on the “Volumen Caribe del tomo Colombia Adentro: relatos territoriales del Informe Final de la Comisión de la Verdad”. It is argued that the conflict exacerbated the problem of high land ownership concentration and uneconomic fragmentation by closely linking with the economic and political interests of the Hacienda. Furthermore, the super concentration of land was a mechanism used by armed groups and drug traffickers to finance the war. Finally, this consolidates the idea of Nature as a victim, but also as a cause and factor in the persistence of the armed conflict, highlighting the need to reconcile – make peace – with it, and even advance in its recognition as a subject of rights.