The Victims Unit, in conjunction with Social Prosperity, celebrated Inclusion Week with activities that included a masculinities workshop.

With a virtual workshop organized by the Victims Unit and the Department for Social Prosperity, the conference was held this Wednesday by the lecturer Juan Pablo Noguera, in order to make a call to mitigate exclusion and contribute to the generation of older and better equal opportunities.

The event included the participation of the territorial director of the Victims Unit in Magdalena, Jair Diazgranados, the regional director of Social Prosperity, Hernando Henríquez, liaisons of victims of the department, SNARIV entities, victims of armed conflict and participants of the Youth in Action program.

The main objective of the day is to seek to eradicate all forms of gender-based violence, critically build other ways of being men, accompany the critical reflection of male aggressors in their process of change, encourage the creation and investigation of processes to deepen the understanding of violence and gender and promoting the stimulation of solidarity networks within the framework of the ethics of care.

For the territorial director of the Unit, “within the framework of the permanent articulation with Social Prosperity, we appreciate this alliance to continue working for Magdalena, improving the living conditions of many vulnerable families that were affected by the armed conflict and today through the institutional effort together we contribute to transform lives”.

Finally, the lecturer Juan Pablo Noguera assured that “this workshop was aimed precisely at providing practical theoretical tools to be able to do a joint job with men to mitigate everything that has to do with machismo, reduction of violence towards genders and towards women, boys, girls and adolescents, and to be able to build an alternative territory in which masculinities play a very important role in the issue of social change and the generation of social and family peace”.

(End/TTR/CMC/LMY)