Shifting Criminal Identities: The Narco and the Rise of Transitional Justice for Drug Cartels
摘要
This chapter analyses the political transformation of Narcos and its effects on peacebuilding. Using Colombia’s case, we will show how Narco has abandoned its place as a self-interested and unjustifiable criminal. Instead, the Narco is now conceived as a hybrid subject seen both as a horrendous criminal and as a product of social exclusion with a political agenda. Such hybridisation of the Narco has allowed a new way of perceiving the conflict with drug trafficking organisations, going from a matter of blatant opposition to the state’s legality to a socio-political problem. Conceiving drug trafficking as a socio-political problem opens a debate on how to deal with the Narco and whether a transition to peace with drug trafficking organisations is possible.