Introduction to the documentary "The Faces of Policarpa". Viotá
Chapter 2
"Women as the transversal axis of post-conflict: a social, moral and political requirement".
Maria Mauersberger, Social Worker and Legal Representative of the Women in Peace Foundation Colombia, takes us on a journey of stories of courageous women leaders, among landscapes with blue skies and magical mountains. But it is also a landscape where too much blood was spilled.
It was a journey knowing the history and the present in relation to the war for land, peace and women as actors in this context.
From history we can learn, and we can prevent the repetition of the atrocities of war.
Sevenyears after the signing of the Peace Accord, the struggles for land, for drug trafficking routes and the threats and assassinations against leaders and women leaders are still very much alive.
"The one who came from distant lands to tell".
It is time to lay down our arms and restructure the country from the bottom up.
This is a summary of two years of work in the territory of Viotá, Cundinamarca. A work done with a focus on Human Rights and leaders, with the intention of contributing a grain of sand for Peace in Colombia.
