Nos están matando por defender la vida Narrativas de defensores y defensoras de derechos humanos en el marco de la violencia sociopolítica en Colombia

Abstract

The purpose of this research project is to understand the narratives of human rights defenders (human rights defenders) in the face of the phenomenon of sociopolitical violence with the purpose of favoring co-participatory understanding of their work under this type of violence. To this objective, the contributions made by social psychology from social constructionism and the socio-critical paradigm are used. The following categories of analysis are taken: narrative construction, socio-political violence and the defense of Human Rights. A qualitative method is used, with a second-order narrative methodology that incorporates observers as construction agents of the reality being observed. A biographical narrative interview and the elaboration of co-constructed narrative productions are implemented with the three human rights defenders who allowed the visibility of alternate stories against the work of defending human rights. Facing the construction of results, the discourse analysis technique was used, which allowed identifying the background of the participants stories and building life stories, which coincide in certain aspects such as the beginning of this work at an early age of lifecycle and the participation of representative figures in their political formation. On the other hand, an important approach is presented on the socio-political violence in Colombia, facing the social construction of this phenomenon, the individual psychosocial affectations and the ideological component that, through discursive action, justifies or legitimizes this type of violence against leaders and defenders of human rights.