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Abstract: This article responds to a reflective moment in the research set forth some years ago which is oriented to understand the way experiences – after the war- of three young former combatants in Colombia from the narrations about themselves. The methodology used was the construction of narratives through different conversational encounters and conversations with them. Currently the research is in the analysis and interpretation phase.
This article intends to expand the reflection horizon on the tensions that young veterans face when they appear in the public sphere, re-join forms of civil life, settle in habits away from the war and suspend their enrollment in the symbolic belligerent weave which used to give meaning and language to their experiences. What is intended here is the recognition of the difficult transit from the combatant status to citizen status, located in the area of saying, of the narrative fact that configures and makes possible a non beligerant nativity, a second birth away from the trenches, inside the city. However, in a society where people are not prepared to listen to others and their warrior past, be born and appear in the agora is not enough if you have to keep quiet. Finally, this is an effort to participate in the multiple cracks open in space
and time after the war. The disturbing crack is in the double event of living and dying in saying.
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