Fuera del conflicto Adaptación a la vida civil de tres jubilados militares de Colombia.

Abstract

The current text, has an aim to recognize which adaptive elements have been acquired by three retirees from Las Fuerzas Militares de Colombia when returning to a civil life upon finishing their careers in the army. Hence, the theory developed by Greogry Bateson Which refers to the adaptability that humans have. In these way historical, political and social elements that follows the experience of the participants. Therefore, it is based on qualitative research providing a vision of analysis to the transformation processes, together with the phenomenology that allows to the subjectively make visible the realities of the participants themselves. The above was carried out with three retirees, each one performed on one of the fronts of Fuerzas Militares (Fuerza Aérea, Ejército Nacional and Fuerza Armada in set with the Policía Nacional), from in depth interviews and discussion group; with the purpose of understanding individual elements that were in their stories, and subsequently, with the discussion group, produced discursive productions around the investigative phenomenon together. For information analysis, a categorization of the narrations was made together with Bateson’s theory and psychological analysis to address these elements, in order to obtain a product, which responds to the objective through this research. As a result, the adaptation incorporated elements of change genotype factors, construction of needs, learning, awareness and self-awareness.