The strategy is implemented to support the return or relocation of the displaced, rebuilding links between them and the host communities in this Antioquia municipality.

With psychosocial attention for emotional recovery, strengthening the social fabric affected by the armed conflict and promoting territorial roots, the strengthening strategy for the communities returned and relocated in Dabeiba was initiated.

The first of seven meetings in charge of the psychosocial team of the Victims Unit was carried out with inhabitants of La Vereda El Botón and neighborhoods in the urban area of ​​this Antioquia municipality, where more than 2,000 families have returned in the past forced displacement.

The strategy will be implemented during the second semester with actions to rebuild the bonds of trust and traditions between the returned population and the host communities in order to improve coexistence, which also prevents the repetition of violence. Social leaderships are also identified and promoted.

The participants in these workshops, which include body exercises and writing, emphasized that psychosocial care "helps us with self-esteem", "doing duels", having "strength to overcome the damage caused by so much violence" and "re-uniting" community".

Coexistence and violence prevention

According to the director of the Victims Unit in Antioquia, Wilson Córdoba Mena, "this strategy reconstructs community life and the leaderships that the conflict interrupted so that the returns of displaced people already achieved are sustainable and with guarantees of non-repetition" .

It is applied in the municipalities with plans of returns and relocations already approved, which focus on compensating them 8 rights to overcome the situation of vulnerability caused by forced displacement: health, education, identification, housing, income generation, psychosocial attention, family reunification and feeding.

The Unit for Comprehensive Care and Reparation for Victims has approved these plans with 204 municipalities in Colombia, of these almost 40 in Antioquia. Almost 275 thousand families displaced by the conflict have returned or relocated to other areas of Colombia with support from the Unit.

(Fin/JCM/LMY)