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Territory as victim : rethinking the right to reparation through Awá indigenous territories
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AJIL unbound, 2025, Vol. 119, pp. 140-144
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BRIES SILVA, Nina, Territory as victim : rethinking the right to reparation through Awá indigenous territories, AJIL unbound, 2025, Vol. 119, pp. 140-144 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/93107
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“La tierra está enferma”—“the territory is sick” as the result of the armed conflict, say the elders of the Awá people, one of Colombia’s Indigenous groups primarily living in the region of Nariño, who preserve their native language, the Awapit, and with it an entire spiritual and cultural relationship with its territory.1 For the Awá people, the prolonged internal armed conflict in Colombia affected not only human beings but also their Mother Earth, the Katsa Su, la gran casa—the big house. They consider their territory a living being that can experience pain and is currently sick and in need of reparation. In 2019, the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace—as the court in charge of dealing with cases related to the armed conflict—embodied these views and recognized the Katsa Su as a victim of the armed conflict, with its own right to reparation.2 But what should reparations to the Katsa Su look like? And more broadly, how does the concept of repairing Indigenous territories challenge traditional anthropocentric assumptions of reparation in Colombia and beyond?
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Published online: 18 August 2025