Summary
This study contributes to the information on the category of Conditions for Political/citizen participation, integrated with the Implications in political formation in contexts of violence. In this manner, participation is defined as those actions that affect power relations in social order, which are open to the characteristics of concrete performance spaces and times of the youth. The study argues that participation is a construct that varies according to contexts and times.

Key words author
Political Formation, Citizen Participation, Social Means, Contexts of Violence

Key words plus
Political Formation, Citizen Participation, Colombia – Social Means

Transference to practice
Participation processes, more than act or behavior, imply understanding the social defense mechanisms necessary for survival. At the same time, these imply contextualizing notions of political inclusion and formation as homogeneous models. Young people insinuate that the dynamics in teacher-student, youth-youth, student-student, and youth-child relationships generate changes in hierarchy and status levels as they provide means for participation and recognition. Cooperation practices and the transformation of power exercises illustrate the day-to-day of the democracy, the formation of comprehensive thought, the destructurization of symbolic systems of injustices, and the denaturalization of violence.