Acta Colombiana de Psicología (Jun 2010)

DESPLAZARSE, MORIR O LUCHAR : COMPROMISO POLÍTICO CON LA COMUNIDAD

  • Echavarría Grajales, Carlos Valerio,
  • Nieto Padilla, Lorena

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 127 – 142

Abstract

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This paper gives a partial account of the research project entitled: "Moral justifications for the political action of a female victim of political violence". This research project had as its main objective to explain the moral meaning and purposes that motivated the political action and civic practices of a community leader in a highly conflictive region of Colombia. A qualitative research design based on biographical narrative was used. Results indicate that her political activity derives its meaning from a sense of public action and from the construction of the common good, as well as from a search for guaranteeing the civil rights to all citizens. It also derived from a sense of what is considered just to all and a guarantee to their individual dignity, and from her sense of protection and personal sacrifice for the community's benefit

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