Conceptions About Social Violence and Violence Against Women: Community Participatory Diagnosis at Manchay, Lima

Abstract

This article is the result of a participatory diagnosis about social violence and violence against women carried out with both female and male inhabitants of San Pablo Mirador (SPM), an urban neighborhood located in the upper area of Manchay, Lima. It was requested by the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Ruwasunchis, and was carried out by a group of faculties and students of the Master Program in Community Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. This article reports the conceptions and the dynamics of social violence in SPM, specifically violence against women, and the resources used by its members in order to address this violence in the community.

Keywords:

• gender domination
• gender inequality
• participatory diagnosis
• violence against women

Notes

The participatory study was carried out as part of the course “Strategies and methodologies of intervention, gender violence and mental sanity.” The faculty members in charge were Rocío Franco and Tesania Velázquez, and with the participation of the students Estefany Benavente, Miguelina Bentocilla, Adriana Fernández, Natalia Incio, Juana Sono, Andrea Urrutia, BettinaValdéz, Carolina Vera, and Analía Zurita.

Recorded in a workshop with a group of 13 women (June 10, 2012).