Reclutamiento de menores en los conflictos territoriales, después del acuerdo de paz (2018-2023). Un acercamiento desde el DIH.

Abstract

This paper seeks to address the recruitment of children and adolescents in Colombia as regards of territorial conflicts, after the peace agreement, that is, from 2018 to 2023, seeing their correlational dynamics between territorial conflicts and recruitment, from the perspective of IHL. To this end, it has been addressed in 3 sections, the first will study international and national standards and the way in which the Constitutional Court has addressed the recruitment of children and adolescents; in a second moment, the current state of this problem in the country will be studied, determining some statistics from the perspective of official institutions together with NGOs; and finally, in the third moment, it will be reviewed how these territorial conflicts affect minors and violate the rules of IHL. It is concluded that recruitment responds to national and particular contexts of the territory, for which an understanding of child victims of the conflict must be applied, in the face of which comprehensive, social and legal protection is deployed for their protection respecting the multiple actors who are responsible before IHL for their recruitment.