Plantas medicinales que sanan heridas de guerra: una experiencia de reconciliación interespecie
Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines a campesino women's interspecies reconciliation initiative in Caquetá, Colombia, that promotes community processes of healing and peacebuilding through medicinal plants. Drawing on collaborative ethnography, we analyze how medicinal plants become nodes of socioecological relations that enable former combatants, victims, and local communities to rebuild trust, solidarity, and everyday practices of care. We argue that peacebuilding efforts require reimagining territories as relational assemblages of humans and other‐than‐human beings that mutually co‐constitute one another. By positioning plants as mediators of these relationships, the article shows how everyday practices of cultivation, healing, and storytelling generate memories and alternative futures that resist the logics of war.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Peace and Human Rights Education
Peacebuilding and International Security
Agriculture
Land Use
Rural Development
Publication details
- Journal / source
- The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 2
- Publication date
- 12 May 2026
- Language
- EN