The armed conflict in Colombia, present for more than 50 years, has left sequels to the Colombian population such as uprooting, nostalgia, humiliation and uncertainty, due to the diversity and atrocity of crimes perpetrated by both, ilegal armed groups and the State. Reason by which it is assumed that society is experiencing a cultural trauma, since it has normalized violence in its daily life, and has not established ethical and moral limits to it. Under this context, this work presents the forgiveness of victims as a catalyst for the post-conflict transition process. This is because it allows us to take a different view of it from the governmental one, in which political pardons are granted -false notions of forgiveness-, which have also led to the polarization of the country with respect to the conditions for ending the armed conflict in the country, as evidenced in the Plebiscite of October 2, 2016. From the opposite positions of Derrida and Jankelevitch, the reflections of the victims interviewed are located (and attempting to understand), to finally analyze them in the light of the theory of Cultural Trauma, which guides the investigation towards a possibility of forgiveness from the victims, that can facilitate the transition to a post-conflict scenario, and thus overcome the conflict. Colombia, Armed conflict, Forgiveness, Cultural trauma, Victims, Violence, Post-conflict.