Strategies for Territorial Peace: The Overcoming of the Structural Violence in Women Living in Palmira, Colombia

Abstract

Women experience different types of violence, and poverty is one of them. The aim of this work was to show the situation of poverty experienced by women in Palmira and how this condition affects both their participation in and contribution to the achievement of territorial peace—a central political target in our country. For this, a descriptive and predictive study was carried out by applying a survey to measure the different types of violence affecting Palmirana women. The results demonstrate the predominance of structural violence suffered by women, which creates unfavorable conditions for the construction of peace in Colombia.

Keywords

• feminization of poverty
• territorial peace
• structural violence
• women
• Palmira