Explanations of the phenomenon of girl soldiers in Antioquia, Colombia: a comparative analysis of the vision of girls disengaged from Illegal Armed Groups and of child students from rural areas of Antioquia with a similar psychosocial profile

Abstract

This article presents and analyzes the explanations that 154 children from Antioquia give to the question why are girls in your region linked to illegal armed groups? And that they have a psychosocial profile similar to that of the girls who are linked to these groups. Initially, the responses given by the children are presented, classified into deterministic explanations –forced linking, objective determinisms and subjective determinisms- and non-deterministic explanations –ludic aspirations, desire for power, criminal desires and ideological reasons; and, subsequently, a comparative analysis is carried out between these and the explanations given by 21 Antioquenian girls who belonged to guerrilla and paramilitary groups.