The right to hold from forced displacement in indigenous communities in Colombia

Abstract

The present article of reflection is about the difficulty for indigenous communities uprooted from their lands and thus the effect on their culture and cultural identity, on the occasion of the Colombian armed conflict, which has forced them to forced displacement, with a focus on rights. This, on the ground that such a break with the territory means the destruction of ancestral ways of life, social structures, languages, identities and even the disappearance of entire communities as their social, economic and cultural development is completely related to their territory. So the central thesis of this reflection is about how that involvement is the foundation of rights of indigenous communities, rights for the connotations that presents and represents, beyond the recognition and protection of ethnic and cultural diversity the Colombian nation, go beyond the constitutional guidelines as the declaration of a state of unconstitutionality by the magnitude and depth of the damage, for the removal of a culture, customs and worldview.