EXPERIENCES OF RECONCILIATION IN THE COLOMBIAN PACIFIC REGION

Diverse Notions of Reconciliation Reconciliation is a process of transformation that can be conceived in several ways. One way is the restoration of a previous relationship between individuals or groups affected by the inadequate handling of conflict that led them to a rupture. Another way of looking at reconciliation is the re-encounter of two agents between whom there was no previous interaction, but who, at one time, were involved in a confrontation over their competing interests. An additional way of understanding reconciliation is the encounter between those who, from a previous relationship or without it ever having existed, caused pain to the other party by becoming perpetrators of some harm and making the other party an individual or a collective victim.