Nov social movements and nonviolence against the threat of the armed actor: Yurumangui River Community Council

Nonviolence is presented in this degree work as a wise bet for the construction of peace, for the protection of land and environment and for the respect for life. Its moral integrity as a figure of resistance perseverance and cooperation among the community, opposed to non-cooperation to the armed actors, shape nonviolence as a category of analysis which allows us to approach unknown realities in such a way that we can interpret more accurately the new social movements experienced in the peripheries under the domain of armed actors. Investigating how the mechanisms of the Community Council of the Yurumangui River have been, with the aim of rejecting the violence of armed actors between 2000-2016, is essential to achieve the characteristics of these different individual and collective actions that have achieved the defense of territory and life. Through fieldwork, in-depth interviews and social mapping workshops with adults and children, observation (field diaries), photography as a complement and crossing with other sources of written information, it was possible to verify that the new social movements that they practice nonviolence under the price of the beloved actor in the peripheries, corresponds to historical resistance processes and not to new resistance processes.