DESPLAZARSE, MORIR O LUCHAR : COMPROMISO POLÍTICO CON LA COMUNIDAD

• Main Authors: Echavarría Grajales, Carlos Valerio, Nieto Padilla, Lorena
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Católica de Colombia 2010-06-01
• Series: Acta Colombiana de Psicología
• Subjects: moral and political justifications; political violence; political action; citizenship practices; construction of the public good; political commitment
• Online Access: http://portalweb.ucatolica.edu.co/easyWeb2/files/23_4116_v13n1-art11.pdf

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