Memory institutions and territorial marks: The case of the armed conflict in Colombia

This article describes some of the findings from the research "Institutions and policies of memory on Colombia's internal armed conflict". The main objective of the investigation was to identify and analyze public initiatives (official or unofficial), devices and discourses that constitute in memory policies in the Colombian armed conflict in official entities, organizations of State crime victims and academic communities, showing how these organisms constitute themselves in memory institutions that produce territorial marks, expressed in re-signification and construction of new meanings on conflictive facts, which are part of the memory political struggles.