Description
Guarantees of non repetition are an integral part of reparation strategies intended to impact the whole community rather than only specific victims. Primarily conceived as structural or policy measures aimed to prevent similar violations to happen again, the practice has expanded beyond legislative and institutional reform to also include alternative approaches, as the use of artbased interventions in the form of monuments or memorials. The Colombian case is a good example of such tendency.
The final peace agreement, signed in 2016 between the Colombian government and the former guerrilla FARC-EP, included a provision for constructing three different monuments using the weaponry turned over by the rebel group. This paper explores the contrasting reparative performance as guarantees of non repetition of the two monuments completed so far, analysing how aesthetic considerations could shape the political motivations and social reception of these art works which were vaguely conceived by the peace agreement.
Keywords: Colombia, art, non-repetition, reparations, monuments.
Bio: Tatiana Fernández-Maya is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. She has a Bachelor in philosophy and a master's degree in Human Rights. Before starting her PhD in Australia, Tatiana worked with Colombian victims, mainly in the area of collective memory and access to reparations.
