This dissertation proposes an analysis of the relation between the Colombian government of the President Álvaro Uribe Velez(2002- ) and the populations internally displaced as a consequence of the Colombian conflict. The main assumption of this research is that this relation is conditioned by two different representations of international security: the War on Terror and the human security discourses. Based on that, we argue that, in this case, the combination of these two representations produces a specific social context, in a way that we can’t analyze the impact of these discourses based on a priori conceptions of them. We will rely on the critical sociology from authors like Pierre Bourdieu and Bernard Lahire to understand the uses of these notions and their properties, focusing on the analysis of human security and its role in the edification of the normative body for the protection of internally displaced persons. If we departed from a priori conceptions of these notions, we would assume that practices informed by the discourses of the War on Terror and human security would be incompatible. However, in Colombia, where the internally displaced are the most evident expression of the violence that prevails in the countryside, the government concentrates the operation of these policies in order to avoid responsibility for the production of violence. In this context, not only do these representations converge, but the human security plays a relevant role on the legitimization of the War on Terror.