Social representations in a university students group in a terrorist act in Bogotá

The aim of this study was to know the social representations in a group of 20 young university students about the car-bomb attack which have place at October 19 of 2006 in the Superior School of War of the National Army located in Bogotá city. To do it, a structured interview was applied conformed b...

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Autor Principal: Sánchez, Vanessa
Otros Autores: Barreto, Idaly, Correa, Diana, Fajardo, Mariana
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia 2007
Acceso en línea: http://revistas.usta.edu.co/index.php/diversitas/article/view/209
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Sumario: The aim of this study was to know the social representations in a group of 20 young university students about the car-bomb attack which have place at October 19 of 2006 in the Superior School of War of the National Army located in Bogotá city. To do it, a structured interview was applied conformed by three open questions with the purpose of know the representations of young university students from two different universities: Military University New Granada and Catholic University of Colombia. The qualitative analysis of the data demonstrates the emergency of categories of analysis such as: attribution of responsibility, experience of the attack and preventive actions in the representation of the attack. Key words: Social representations, Terrorism, Conflict, Armed confrontation, Negotiations, Security.