The Collective Resistance of Afro-Colombian Women Surviving Victims in Colombia: A counter-hegemonic bet

Abstract

With the Law 1448 of Victims and Land Restitution of 2011, in Colombia a political space was opened where the voices of the surviving victims were taken into account and heard in the processes of reparation and non-repetition. With this perspective, the present work shows the experiences of counter-hegemonic political assemblage of a group of Afro-Colombian women surviving victims of Law 1448 on Victims and Land Restitution. For this, a general balance is presented on the place of the surviving victims in the Colombian internal armed conflict. Then it illustrates some initiatives that have paved the way for Afro-Colombian Movements to show the need to think about reparation routes from a territorial perspective, from the recognition of ancestral strategies of healing and reparation that contemplates the damage, not only as result of the conflict, but in an ethnic-racial historical dimension, beyond the areas regulated by the aforementioned Law.

Thus, with a decolonial methodological approach and based on two emblemático casas, the organizational experience of Surviving Afro-Colombian women victims will be Exposed, who, in their collective action initiatives, place counter-hegemónico bets on the Conception of reparation and Becoming an example of a social movimiento that it resistente, by proposing new alternativas for action on the Colombian armed conflict and thus stressing, with its experiences, what has been instituted by the State.