Trapped between Promise and Reality in Colombia's Victims' Law: Reflections on Reparations, Development and Social Justice

Weber, Sanne

doi:10.1111/blar.12887

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“…Based on the results, in relation to State Interventions as a first global theme, it can be argued that the most recurrent type of interventions experienced by women are based on the Non-sociopolitical or directive intervention paradigm which do not understand the structural roots of the Colombian conflict, neither transforms those victims' structural conditions; or promote their active participation in reparation processes [14,19]. Therefore, as a sociopolitical context of extreme vulnerability remains, and the psychosocial approach is not guaranteed [23,29,30,35,37], their constitutional rights are further violated from a non-socio political paradigm in contrary to the Law's spirit of Integral Reparation [2,3,16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These PR processes involve structural aspects in two ways. First, peace pedagogy for the strengthening of political participation as essential for the construction of a positive peace towards more democratic societies [3,13,16,34,35,48]. Secondly, political participation situated from a gender approach, articulating pedagogical processes with women's care work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regarding PR whose objective is to re-establish physical, mental, psychosocial health and welfare by overcoming the victimizing acts affections in the individual, familiar and community levels; address structural violence and gives control to victims in the decision-making process [3,[34][35][36]. In that sense, PR includes actions focused on the victim's and communitarian resources, skills, agency and capacities to overcome victimization rather than emphasizing on psychopathological or deficit approaches that derive from a reductionist individual analysis of armed conflict [3,15,16,35,37,38]. The latter one, objectifies victims reducing their personal and collective possibilities of contributing to their reparation process to mere integrative acts remaining in a re-victimizing, negative feedback loop situation [14,36,[39][40][41].…”

Section: Indeed It Is Through Participation That the National Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By intervening at structural levels, PR is founded on a differential approach that prioritizes specialized intervention based on life cycle, disability, ethnicity and gender [2,35]. Related with the latter, previous works [27,38,[42][43][44][45][46] emphasize in women's role in response to armed conflict to adjust rehabilitation interventions that includes analysis of gender affectations.…”

Section: Indeed It Is Through Participation That the National Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…showing a high complexity due to neoliberal conditions of the Colombian State that prevail [49][50][51] [26,35].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Psychosocial Rehabilitation Experiences of Women Victims of Armed Conflict in Colombia.

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Background: After nine years of the ground-breaking social policy Law 1448 of 2011 -Victims Law- and its extension until 2030, the Colombian State and other stakeholders have made several efforts towards granting the right of integral reparation for more than nine million victims that are recognized in the Colombian transitional context. Psychosocial rehabilitation is a reparation measure of the Victims Law’s whose objective is to re-establish the psychosocial, physical and mental health welfare in the individual, familiar and community levels. This study aims to understand the experiences of psychosocial rehabilitation of women victims of armed conflict in Montes de Maria and the underlying social intervention paradigms that guide the Law’s implementation. Methods: Based on a qualitative design with a phenomenological approach, narrative tools and thematic network analysis permitted to give voice to the women participants. Individual narrative interviews and a focus group were conducted with twelve and eight women victims, respectively. Results: Although the Victims Law is oriented by a sociopolitical intervention paradigm, the stories of the women’s victims of Montes de María mainly evidenced non-sociopolitical interventions with humanitarian assistance towards revictimization and State abandonment. As a coping mechanism towards the State negligence encountered, women strive to overcome psychosocial trauma by developing agency and community resources for the resignification of the traumatic experiences and peacebuilding. Conclusions: For the Victims Law to achieve its integrality aim, the psychosocial approach should be implemented through all its measures but remains absent. Women and their communities are urgently demanding mental health interventions with adequate psychosocial rehabilitation to overcome trauma. Therefore, it is an urgent matter for the different stakeholders to collaborate towards transformative and participatory psychosocial interventions based on the community’s necessities and resources and non-repetition guarantees to avoid revictimization, as conflict and an Unconstitutional state of affairs persists.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Indeed It Is Through Participation That the National Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Indeed It Is Through Participation That the National Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…showing a high complexity due to neoliberal conditions of the Colombian State that prevail [49][50][51] [26,35].…”

Section: Indeed It Is Through Participation That the National Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Moving with risk: Forced displacement and vulnerability to hazards in Colombia

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Armijos

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Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice

2021

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Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.

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Trapped between Promise and Reality in Colombia's Victims' Law: Reflections on Reparations, Development and Social Justice

Cited by 28 publications

References 33 publications

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Experiences of Women Victims of Armed Conflict in Colombia.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Experiences of Women Victims of Armed Conflict in Colombia.

Moving with risk: Forced displacement and vulnerability to hazards in Colombia

Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice

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