Abstract

GONZALEZ, José Manuel; MERCHAN, Jeritza  and  ORTEGA-VALENCIA, Piedad. Effects of the War On Young University Students. Testimonial Narratives. Pensam. palabra obra [online]. 2022, n.28, e300.  Epub Dec 28, 2022. ISSN 2011-804X.  https://doi.org/10.17227/ppo.num28-17309.

The purpose of this paper is to establish tsome narratives oaround the effects of war on university students, as an urgent task that allows us to reflect on the consequences of these affectations on the corporeity's and integralities of university bodies. The narrators face some challenges when constructing stories from their painful experiences and bringing them closer to their BEING public university students. One of them, without a doubt, is the responsibility of listening to that, however, summons the University to address these complexities in training processes, to investigate this reality interdisciplinarity, to assume the violating acts, and collectively demand, as a social class, a collective identity recognizing the victims, the rights to truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-repetition. The experiential narratives that illustrate this essay are from surviving victims of the different conditions that the university community has suffered in the context of war. In their experiences, close filial, loving, and organizational stories are reported, which is why in each fragment there are underlying mentions of those others with whom one acquires the responsibility of perpetuating their memory, of telling what happened, of continuing to walk in their company: "in the shadow of war as a stone in their shoes" (Demner, 2013, p. 9). The fact that the names of those who offered their accounts are not made explicit has been by express request. The desire for anonymity is part of another condition: fear. We continue to be during a bloody war, exacerbated in the context of the post-agreement, that has claimed the lives of many students. In recent times the pain of loss has increased during the development of a social and political rebellion, recognized as a social outburst.

Keywords : effects of war; university students; testimonial narratives.

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