Mecanismos de control social de grupos armados organizados al margen de la ley y estrategias de afrontamiento colectivo de víctimas en el Municipio de Almaguer – Cauca

Abstract

The interest of this study focuses on the importance of knowing the mechanisms of social control imposed by Armed Groups Organized to the Margin of the Law - GAOML- and the collective coping strategies of the affected civilian population in the framework of the Colombian armed political conflict in the municipality of Almaguer, department of Cauca, a territory that due to its location is of importance at the geographic, social and economic, at a moment of historical inflection in the transformation of the conflict. The approach was carried out from three focus groups, made up of 24 people registered in the Single Registry of Victims. Among the results obtained, identified that the GAOML use the devastation of local bases of democracy, successive imposition of various orders of violence and stigmatization, which contain the development of multiple violent actions and norms to regulate the behavior of the inhabitants. In response to this dynamic of armed conflict coping strategies are identified (direct, self-control and active) by the civilian population. The main axis of the research is the description of the narratives related to the conceptual framework and other approaches given from a perspective of social constructionism for understanding the mechanisms of social control that Organized Armed Groups carry out the Margin of the Law -GAOML-, and analysis of the collective coping strategies that the victims implemented before these acts of violence, specifically in the municipality of Almaguer.