The right to participation of the victims of the armed conflict from the context of the Municipal Table of Santiago de Cali within the framework of Law 1448 of 2011

Abstract

This article analyzes the participation of the victims of the armed conflict as a transversal component in the public policy of victims set forth in Law 1448 of 2011, focusing its analysis on the participation space institutionally established by Resolution 388 of 2013, Protocol of Participation; This space was called Participation Tables. For this analysis, victims from the years 2013 to 2014 were chosen as the case  study. The main findings of the research were collected using participant observation and semi-structured surveys as tools, both for leaders of victim organizations and for public officials of different state entities guarantors of the correct materialization of this space. Among the findings, there was little impact of the Participation Table in the construction of municipal public policies and in their follow-up, due to factors such as ignorance of the norm, poor attendance at meetings, friction between the  same members of the table, distrust towards the governmental entities, among other aspects that will be evidenced throughout the present article.