ABSTRACT
This chapter uses the book’s connectivity framework to analyse the empirical data from Colombia and to tell a story about resilience through the many connectivities – and the stories of those connectivities – between the Colombian interviewees and their social ecologies. It explores the broken and ruptured connectivities that these women and men spoke most about (relating to physical displacement, family and health respectively); and it examines in depth the supportive and sustaining connectivities that were especially prominent in the interviewees’ stories (faith and spirituality, women’s organisations and NGOs). The discussion of new connectivities – the third part of the book’s conceptual framework – focuses on meaning-making and on ways that some of the female interviewees were building new connectivities (including with other victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence) aimed at bringing about fundamental change within their social ecologies.
