Approaches to the concept of conciliation in Colombia

This article presents a bibliographical approach that aims to review the concept of conciliation in Colombia (within the framework of the research project entitled “Efficacy of prejudicial conciliation in alimony obligations – years 2014 and 2015 in the Reconciliation Center of the UCEVA”), Particularly in the area of preliminary conciliation in family law; in an attempt to study the conceptions that currently exist in Colombia as well as in Latin America, highlighting their importance as a mechanism to relieve the ordinary justice. Such exercise is further developed, taking as a reference for contrast some jurisprudential definitions and some outlined by contemporary foreign procedural dogmatic.