Definition of the Situation of Children Demobilized Illegal Armed Groups in the Legal Acts and Psychoeducational Effects

• Published in: Revista Estudios socio-jurídicos Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 163 - 177
• Main Author: Jaime Alberto Carmona Parra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad del Rosario 01-06-2014
• Subjects: Actos jurídicos; definición de la situación; efectos psicoeducativos; niños
• ISSN: 0124-0579; 2145-4531

The article begins with a reflection on performative utterances, which are speech acts, to show that the right contributes to the creation of reality and subjectivity. Based on this argument examines five definitions of the situation of children demobilized from illegal armed groups in Colombia, named according to their effects psychoeducational: victimizing, pathologizing, criminalizing, idealizing and responsabilizing. Each definition is examined in terms of their philosophical affiliation, deterministic, nondeterministic or interactionist, its effects on the construction of the identity of minors and in his appeal to responsibility and legal insanity. At the end of the article shows the intervention proposals arising from each of the definitions and shows the role that restorative justice can play in building a model of care which confers responsibility to the children demobilized from illegal armed groups, and other victims of armed conflict, which guarantees the restitution of rights and also empowers them as key actors in redefining their social role and identity reconstruction.