Abstract

TRUJILLO HASSAN, Daniela; SALAZAR MANRIQUE, Estefanía  and  CARDONA ANGARITA, Jorge Mauricio. Perceptions of violence, an introspective analysis of the experience of a group of colombian military. Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.45, n.2, pp.253-276.  Epub Dec 01, 2024. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v45n2/96308.

Through the perceptions, experiences, and memories of a group of officers of the Colombian National Army, who from a early age began their military professionalization and graduated in 1995 from the José María Córdova Military School in one of the most numerous courses of the time, and who subsequently put into practice the training received, that was focused on facing the adversities of a war context where they witnessed and participated in the Colombian armed conflict; it seeks to know, understand, and analyze what are the characteristics of the violence experienced by these officers around that context. This was possible due to a previous approach that allowed the collection of experiences and perceptions of approximately 150 of these officers through semi-structured interviews, where their thoughts and narratives not only elucidate violence as a category of analysis from their points of view, but also allow to know their perceptions around their military profession with experiences linked to their past, where they bring up the memories of their experiences through an exercise of memory during various scenarios and moments of their military career. What is described shows that there is a perception of violence of longitudinal type that remains in the time for the consequences unleashed, many of them had experiences linked to pain and death; besides, not only did they live a physical violence in the field of war, but also a symbolic violence where their military work was often affected in a hierarchical pyramidal institution, where not everyone manages to continue in their career of promotion because of different problems that hinder their personal and professional aspirations that as a result, not only generated situations of pain, uncertainty, and fear, but also a criticism and disappointment on the part of its protagonists.

Keywords : armed conflict; memory; military profession; violence.

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