Peace and artistic transcoding: the case of Colombia

This article describes and systematizes some theoretical principles of the Research for Peace (imperfect peace, pacifist empowerment, conflict, resilience), which aim to establish an epistemological framework that helps to think about conflict resolution in violent societies. We maintain that peace in such scenarios is possible, particularly if the victims mourn after going through a resilience-building process. To apply these principles in a practical way, we describe and employ the method of "artistic transcoding", by means of which works of diverse creative nature are converted into artistic products by victims of the conflict. The particular place from which these problems are thought out is Colombia, a country that has gone through a long period of internal war and that, seeking to put an end to such confrontation, has signed a peace agreement between its government and the FARC-EP guerrillas.