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

Karen Quiñones,Wilfrido Newton Quiñones Londoño,Paris A Cabello-Tijerina,Máximo Vicuña De La Rosa

doi:10.3390/socsci9110211

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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.

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The Impact of Structural Violence in the Construction of Territorial Peace. This quantitative study showed that structural violence affects the construction of territorial peace from the perspective of Palmirana women more than direct violence and cultural violence; it was observed that the vulnerability of women increases with violence
Ríos and Gago (2018) who, in analyzing the conditions that allow for territorial peace in Colombia, found that aspects of structural violence constitute the most major concerns in the municipalities that were the subject of their study
These results were compared to Ross (2019) findings in the Canadian context, where the direct violence suffered by women within a peacebuilding framework was studied

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According to the Latin American and Caribbean 2019 statistical yearbook from the Economic. Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC 2020), 30.4% of women in the region live in conditions of poverty (including extreme poverty) in comparison with only 29.6% of men. This trend is the same in Colombia: this issue impacts more women than men, as was observed in recent studies conducted by national and international organizations, showing a significant increment in the number of poor women compared to poor men, from 102.5 in 2008 to 118 in 2018—i.e., 102.5 and 118 poor women for every 100 poor men, respectively—(DANE and UN Women 2019).

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