ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of peace infrastructures. It uses the concept of peace infrastructures to analyze the institutional design of victims' participation in symbolic reparation measures within Colombia's transitional justice framework. Peace infrastructures are a 'dynamic network of interdependent structures, mechanisms, resources, values, and skills which contribute to conflict and peacebuilding in a society'. Colombia has been implementing national reparation programs within transitional justice frameworks for many years. Reparations are considered an integral part of any transitional justice initiative, even though neither the meaning nor the goals of reparations have been settled either in theory or in practice. The role of symbolic reparations in transitional contexts has increasingly been recognized as equally important as material reparations, due to the potential of the former to promote redress, foster solidarity, reweave a community's social fabric, and restore the dignity of victims and survivors.
