The purpose of the present investigation is to determine the scope of the conciliation as an alternative mechanism for resolving conflicts in the decongestion of the criminal offices of the city of Santa Marta in the years 2014 y 2015, in this sense, establish whether it is a viable instrument and applicability in the new accusatory criminal system by means of which can be resolved enforceable crimes to generate procedural economy for the Colombian state; The investigation established substantial premises regarding the importance of conciliation in criminal matters, the historical development of alternative mechanisms for conflict solution, the global, Latin American and national progress of what is nowadays known as the MASC. The theoretical foundations were based on authors such as Luis Octavio Vado Grajales, philosophers such as Juan Jacobo Rousseau and other representatives of the classic Enlightenment era.