Thirty years of constitutional aspirations for peace for social change

The 1991 Constitution is full of aspirations. One of the main ones, given the inter armed conflict and the human rights crisis of the country, is to reach peace. Nevertheless, after thirty years, there is a social sense that the peace aspiration could not be reached. In this article, we argue that this sense originates in a particular understanding of peace as a wish so unembraceable as unreachable, without ways of realization, and from general visions that say little about the social change that we want to achieve. Therefore, we assume that there are legitimate disputes in the different constitutional peace manifestations, we propose to address peace from coexistence, and we evaluate if there are some transformations driven by the Constitution that give us reasons for hope or hopelessness in this matter.