Weaving peace from knowledge in Colombia

Peacebuilding has been an intense task that Colombian society has undertaken after decades of armed conflict with multiple difficulties and limitations. These efforts have been directed towards the configuration of dialogue scenarios for social, political, economic and cultural transformation. Groups with special constitutional protection are key actors in this type of process not only because of their legal relevance, but because they are bearers of essential capacities and knowledge. The objective of this article is to describe the way in which knowledge management contributes to peacebuilding from groups with special protection under a human rights approach. It corresponds to a study based on the interpretive paradigm and the qualitative approach of exploratory level. Content analysis was used as a method, which allowed the approach of various documentary sources of interest from a matrix that facilitated the systematization and analysis of the information. The results are organized into three sections: generalities of knowledge management, context of armed conflict and peacebuilding in coherence with knowledge management, and groups with special constitutional protection and knowledge management for peacebuilding. These sections show that groups with special protection due to their experiences and resistance are bearers of relevant knowledge useful for peacebuilding under situated and contextualized logics, and that this knowledge is managed in a collective and participatory manner for the strengthening of community processes and the construction of other realities. Therefore, it constitutes a dialectical and complementary triad that deserves to be studied in depth in the contexts of armed conflict and post-conflict.