This writing illustrates the investigative process developed in the context of accompanying relatives who are victims of enforced disappearance in an area of high conflict in Colombia, this process carried out for three years by the hand of Social Work students belonging to the PAZS research seedbed. OS left as a result a methodology that puts narration, testimony and listening at the center as fundamental pillars such as denunciation, healing and memory co-creation; Additionally, the text shows the tensions that arise in the exercise of the role of researcher where life and security must be constant reflections of the methods of approaching the territory and of intervention strategies.
In the first part, therefore, the text deals with contextualizing the area where the research exercise was carried out, making a historical look at the actors involved and some of the main effects, where forced disappearance occupies a strategic political place in performance of illegal groups; Later, the context of the emergence of the investigative bet and the particularities that gave rise to it are exposed; finally, the text shows the methodological bet that arises from this process with the intention that it can be applied and replicated in similar contexts, therefore the text is rigorous in presenting each of the steps developed in detail.
