Las huellas del conflicto armado:Relatos identitarios y resiliencia en mujeres victimas de violencia sexual

Abstract

This research was developed under a qualitative methodology and was based on the paradigm of complexity, social constructionism, the ontology of language and cybernetics of the second order. The general objective was to understand the narrative construction of the identity story and of resilience in women victims of sexual violence in the context of the Colombian armed conflict. Well, the participants were two women, victims of some type of sexual violence by some armed group in the framework of the Colombian conflict; In compliance with this objective the methodology was carried out from a narrative approach, under the theoretical assumptions of hermeneutics, making use of qualitative techniques for the collection of information such as in-depth interviews and body mapping, proposing as a technique of analysis of the information the content analysis from which the categories of (1) identity are presented in which subcategories such as identity story, family, religion, politics and context / origin emerge; and (2) the resilience in which the pillars of resilience proposed by Cyrulnik (2005) are subcategories, which are the ability to relate, initiative, humor, creativity and the capacity for critical thinking. The research process concludes that the identity of the participants is transformed by the different sociocultural and contextual dynamics that they have experienced through the war, reflected in their narratives; In addition, the victimizing facts become inseparable from their stories about the experiences of pain and fear, however, after being victims of sexual violence they found coping skills and personal resources to face the impacts that the war left on their body, their Life and your emotions.