Paz total y representaciones de paz en las mujeres de Tibú (2022–2025)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the representations of peace among women in Tibú, Norte de Santander, within the framework of the Total Peace Policy (2022–2025). Tibú has historically been one of the territories most affected by the armed conflict in Colombia, where women have disproportionately experienced gender-based violence, forced displacement, and the fragmentation of their communities. The study is based on the premise that women are not only victims of the conflict but also active political agents whose narratives and experiences are essential to peacebuilding processes. The research is grounded in the historical-hermeneutic paradigm and adopts a qualitative, descriptive-comprehensive approach. Intersectionality is employed as the main analytical framework to understand how ethnic, economic, and territorial conditions shape differentiated experiences of resistance. Data collection is carried out through narrative and participatory techniques, including documentary analysis, focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and storytelling. The study seeks to move beyond traditional understandings of peace centered on agreements with armed actors, highlighting peace as a relational process that involves healing the social fabric and transforming structural forms of violence. The findings reveal that women continue to be marginalized and subjected to multiple forms of vulnerability, reflecting a significant gap between state actions and territorial realities.