Punto de encuentro: reflexiones sobre la construcción de paz en el Centro Poblado Héctor Ramírez

Amorocho, José David; Báez, María Guadalupe Laura Báez; Urbina, Laura Bello; Carreño, Mónica; Reyes, Santiago Castro; García, María Fernanda Echeverri; Carantón, María Alejandra Fino; Martínez, Santiago Garzón; Gómez-Suárez, Andrei; Bernal, Martha Rocío González; Gort, Mónica González; González, Andrés Lagos; Romero, Sara Martínez; Montes, Federico; Cárdenas, Diego Efrén Rodríguez; Sarmiento, Laura Camila; Sierra, J. Cadavid; Moreno, Miguel Uribe

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“…The present study was conducted in the context of the optative course Community Psychology Applied to Post‐Conflict Settings created in 2018 in a private university in Chía, a municipality located near Bogota. The course was developed as a strategy to promote a dialogical encounter between two historically distant social groups: urban youth and former guerrilla members (Fonseca & Reinoso, 2020). It is available biannually to all psychology students in this university, and it is a CSL experience (Trigos‐Carrillo et al., 2020), that is, it involves not only learning in class but also field trips and direct engagement with communities and Colombian social reality.…”

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“…In this article, we investigate the encounter between former guerrilla members and urban university students propitiated by a curricular initiative in undergraduate education: the critical service‐learning (CSL) course ‘ Community Psychology Applied to Post‐Conflict Settings ’ (Fonseca & Reinoso, 2020; Trigos‐Carrillo et al., 2020). We focussed in particular on the perceptions and identity transformation of urban youth as they experience the encounter with former combatants.…”

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“…However, these courses are mainly theoretical, involve students’ reflections amongst themselves and remain based in the cities. Alternatively, in the Community Psychology Applied to Post‐Conflict Settings course students travel to a Former Territorial Space for Training and Reconciliation and for 2 weeks live side by side with former guerrilla members, sharing everyday practices and participating in shared spaces for reflection about their encounter (Fonseca & Reinoso, 2020; Trigos‐Carrillo et al., 2020). To the best of our knowledge, this is a unique undergraduate curricular experience which combines disciplinary training and everyday encounters with peace signatories.…”

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The long hard road of reconciliation: Prefiguring cultures of peace through the transformation of representations of former combatants and identities of urban youth in Colombia

Fonseca

Jovchelovitch

2023

Euro J Social Psych

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The Colombian peace accords of 2016 involved a formal commitment to peace between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia‐People's Army (FARC‐EP in Spanish) and the national government. Despite this advance, societal reconciliation and sustainable peace remain key challenges. Through a longitudinal qualitative design, we investigate the encounter between former guerrilla members and urban university students in a community‐based educational space in rural Colombia. Drawing on a social representational approach, we focus on youth's representations of self (students), the remote other (former guerrilla members) and peace and reconciliation as they are produced before, during and after the encounter. Participants were 24 students enrolled in a service‐learning course at an urban university in Bogotá. Data collection included written narratives, audio‐visual material, focus groups and interviews. Thematic analyses show that as urban youth meet, spend time, and share space and common activities with the former combatants, both representations and identities are transformed. These transformations in self–other understandings unsettle hegemonic narratives supporting an ethos of conflict and introduce alternative representations that prefigure the consolidation of peace‐supporting counternarratives. Our results highlight both the resilience of hegemonic narratives and the long‐term effects of small‐scale educational knowledge encounters for producing agents of peace, recognising the other and prefiguring social change. Reconciliation as process must be thus understood as the uneven development of meaningful self–other interactionsthat recasts the social fabric as interdependent and builds shared intentionality for achieving sustainable peace.

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The long hard road of reconciliation: Prefiguring cultures of peace through the transformation of representations of former combatants and identities of urban youth in Colombia

Fonseca

Jovchelovitch

2023

Euro J Social Psych

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Critical Participatory Action Research in a Rural Community Committed to Peacebuilding in Times of Crisis

Trigos-Carrillo

Fonseca

2021

Handbook of Research on the Global Empowerment of Educators and Student Learning Through Action Research

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Conducting critical community research during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought unexpected challenges to academic communities. In this chapter, the authors analyze the obstacles faced in a Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR) education project with a rural community of former guerrilla members in the Amazon piedmont in Colombia. After this analysis, the authors present four CPAR principles to support critical community work during difficult times. The authors argue that communicative action, horizontal community participation in all the stages of the research process, time commitment, and the leverage of other competing needs should be guaranteed and maintained during times of crisis. CPAR offers opportunities to advocate better conditions for the most affected communities in moments of increasing inequality.

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Punto de encuentro: reflexiones sobre la construcción de paz en el Centro Poblado Héctor Ramírez

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The long hard road of reconciliation: Prefiguring cultures of peace through the transformation of representations of former combatants and identities of urban youth in Colombia

The long hard road of reconciliation: Prefiguring cultures of peace through the transformation of representations of former combatants and identities of urban youth in Colombia

Critical Participatory Action Research in a Rural Community Committed to Peacebuilding in Times of Crisis

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