Make a place. Community women's leaders in context of Colombian armed conflict

This article presents the findings of the research that sought to identify the possible relationship between historical memory exercises and intentionality in their intergenerational construction, of an investigative process carried out in the municipality of Granada, Antioquia, affected by the armed conflict and with a strong history of community organization. The methodology was qualitative based on the phenomenological -interpretive perspective and semistructured interviews were used for the purpose described. It was found that, even though the intentional of the relay in the "Encuentros de Saber" (strategy of the organizations) was not clear, it materialized in the involvement of children and relatives in the community processes. On the other hand, the community organizations encourage women, who have experienced both the social violence of the armed conflict and the private violence of machismo in their family and couple relationships, to become a political place for the public participation, for recognition, for the struggle for rights and for the transformation of their lives, in short, to be women leaders.