ABSTRACT
One of the current tendencies relating to healing trauma is the repetition of narrating the traumatic events in question to expose violence and seek justice. However, remembering and retelling can be a revictimization process that contravenes the healing process (Das, 2007, p. 103). In this chapter we firstly consider the Land Restitution program, a Colombian State initiative that seeks to return to the victims of the armed conflict the land they lost, as a narrative/discourse that depicts the tension created by the Colombian State in the constitution of the category of victims of the armed conflict. Secondly, we consider narratives as vehicles used to make sense of the world and tell stories about human experiences. We consider narratives to be excellent research tools that facilitate the understanding of the reality depicted by them (De Fina & Johnstone, 2015).
