Ethics of care: Lessons of women victims of anti-personnel mines [Ética del cuidado: Lecciones de las mujeres víctimas de minas antipersonal (MAP)]

Abstract

The research on injuries caused by anti-personnel mines has been limited from a gender perspective, but paradoxically, in this aspect care becomes the fundamental base of processes of resilience and recovery in everyday life. By way of this article, derived from the research project for contribute to the reconstruction of local memories of women victims of this artifacts, the different impacts caused by this accidents are explored. And it describe how care and maternal thinking become affective mechanisms in the process of recovery from traumas, reconstruction of social bonds and search for peace. © 2016, Universidad del Zulia. All rights reserved.