Abstract

ECHAVARRIA GRAJALES, CARLOS VALERIO  and  NIETO PADILLA, LORENA. BECOMING AN INTERNAL REFUGEE, TO DIE OR TO STRUGGLE: POLITICAL COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITY . Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2010, vol.13, n.1, pp.127-142. ISSN 0123-9155.

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.

Keywords : moral and political justifications; political violence; political action; citizenship practices; construction of the public good; political commitment.

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