Conflict analysis for Collective Protection and Anticipation of Violence in Colombian Rurality

Abstract

The Directorate of Carabineros and Rural Security of the National Police of Colombia in a joint work with the Organization of Ibero-American States present the results obtained in the social project called “Collective protection and anticipation of violence, a view from territories “; developed under a qualitative methodology, based on Participant Action Research during 2019 in 25 prioritized municipalities in 8 departments of the country. The objective of the project was to identify from the differential approach (age and population groups), territorial and Human Rights perspective, the conflicts that affect the communities in terms of violence, security and coexistence in the post-conflict phase. This would provide inputs for the second phase that will seek the construction of collective preventive actions in a culture of peace characterized by the anticipation of violence in the rural and dispersed rural sectors. In this article, the research process and the results are related to the identification of conflicts in the selected micro-territories, concluding that children, adolescents, institutions and communities primarily find that the conflicts that most affect the healthy coexistence are micro-trafficking and the consumption of psychoactive substances in each of the territories analyzed, regardless of the culture, geography or social development achieved.