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Sanadurías is a Colombian collective exploring diverse peace concepts from indigenous communities and conflict victims. Emerging from an ethnographic research and museographic exposition amid the country's post-2016 peace process, it uses embodied, artistic methods to transform social realities.

Paper long abstract

Sanadurías is a Colombian research collective part of a broader group called Centro de Pensamiento Pluralizar la Paz. Sanadurías was born as a museum exposition with the results of an ethnographic project about the different concepts of peace of different indigenous communities, and of the members of the Association of Victims of North Antioquia. Because of a long recent history of social division in the country caused by an internal armed conflict between guerillas, military and paramilitary groups, peace has been at the centre of debates about the future of the country, being the signature of a 2016 peace deal an important landmark. However, the conflict did not end but transformed into a more complex network of actors that put pressure most affecting people in isolated parts of the country. Responding to this context, Sanadurías has sought to generate dialogue about practices of peace from the heterogeneity that characterizes Colombia’s people.

Sanadurías has reflected about how its initial ethnographic methodology had been influenced by non-verbal and embodied ways of knowing of the people involved. This, together with the recent new direction by an anthropologist and dancer, has propulsed Sanadurías to address peacemaking from its symbolic dimensions, looking to enrich conditions of possibility for conflict resolution through the arts, the embodied, and the sensible. This is thought to facilitate the transformation of social realities that involve violence and conflict today by fostering collaboration between people regardless of their differences, looking to think and act for a future where all can belong.