La Fuerza de las Mujeres: Un Estudio de las Estrategias de Resiliencia y la Transformación en la Ocupación Humana de Mujeres Víctimas del Conflicto Armado en Colombia

Abstract

The objective of the research is to give evidence upon resilience strategies identified in the lives of Colombian female victims who faced a transformation in their human occupation after suffering forced displacement from their homelands in the framework of the armed-civil conflict of the country. For which, the research problem is justified in the premise bellow: Colombian female victims have develop an ability to face post- conflict situations. This justification is followed by the explanation of research concepts as resilience; human occupation; body versus war-armed conflict; oppressing facts upon women and its consequences, which concludes as a transformation into meaningful activities. Moreover, based in what is supported in the theoretical framework and the state of art, the research was projected from a phenomenological- descriptive method (qualitative). The participants were four adult women who are victims of forced land displacement. In addition, body language (dance) was the approach to identify the resilience strategies; the dance elements taken into account were (Organic Dance, Butoh Dance and Contact Improvisation). As a conclusion, from the approach, it was identified that, the main resilience strategies facing the human occupation in women victims of Colombian armed-conflict are related to “doing for others” as an accomplishment to the maternal role based in affective feedback; self-awareness and their own management to restore their life-projects. Which in turn is reinforced by their own recognition of skills and resources and finally, the spirituality from the cognizance of their strengths to face their everyday.