Corporal Practices and armed conflict: Colombia

Abstract

This article intends to identify and recognize the corporal practices that non-governmental organizations in Colombia deal with, regarding the victims of the armed conflict. It implied a characterization of the organizations regarding the way of observing the body, corporal practices and violence; a criticism of the Victims and Land Reparation Law (as a regulator of attention, assistance, reparation and monitoring of the types of victimization); as well as an observation of the behavior of the subject in the face of the intervention of COVID-19. It was then obtained that, although at present, the Colombian leadership bodies have taken measures regarding the victims of the armed conflict, the laws have made the real needs of the population independent of what is intended to be replaced. On the other hand, in the face of the changes generated during the pandemic, two levels of intervention were identified: one that made it possible to potentiate the practices of organizations through the mediation of information technologies; and another in which the intervention processes were limited or completely stopped. From the analysis of eight semi-structured interviews, the impacts of the war on the body and the practices of reexisting are analyzed; finding that the repair must be understood from a holistic perspective of the human being. The work provides a concept of health based on thirteen body practices found; contributing to the health and comprehensive reparation of the victims, both internal and external reconciliation from within the affected person.