El continuum de las violencias basadas en género en el contexto del conflicto armado colombiano y su relación con el empoderamiento económico de las sobrevivientes

Abstract

This report studies the relationship between gender-based violence (GBV) and women's economic empowerment in the context of the Colombian armed conflict, and the central role played by women's organizations in their empowerment process. The study of this relationship is based on the concept of the continuum of GBV to identify the ways in which violence and its consequences –in terms of loss of employment, income, educational opportunities, as well as forced displacement and land dispossession– are interrelated. In turn, the continuum is characterized by the following: first, the circularity of the different forms of violence; second, it refers to the occurrence of violence throughout their life-time by different actors –civilian and armed—; and third, the differential consequences on survivors at the psychological, and economic-laboral level, consequences that lead to the reproduction of GBV because the continuum prevents them from breaking the circularity of violence.