Conflicts in the border, the rights and policies of a social pact

Abstract

The conflicts of the borders between nations and the social pacts establish interactions between social agents, rights and the democratic State. The objective of the article is to analyze, from the sociological point of view, the relationship between the perception of the existence of social pacts and the multiple conflicts. We investigated the northern border of Santander (Colombia) and Táchira (Venezuela). The theoretical resource is combined with the operational point of view of research on social practices, with field observation and survey applications. Among the findings we highlight the multiple interactions between the State and the citizens, but without the existence of a channel for resolving fundamental issues in the territorial space and therefore the inconsistent possibilities of a social pact with respect to conflicts in the aforementioned border context persist.

Keywords:
Rights; Conflicts; Social pacts; Smuggling; Border