Colombia has the second highest rate of forced displacement victims in the world. Consequently, the need to investigate and intervene the impacts of this political violence is a matter of urgency. This review focuses on resilience as a psychosocial category, as a possibility for social development and as an expression of mental health. The concept of resilience is suggested as an alternative field of research and intervention for the disruptive processes in the urban and rural violence context in Colombia. Placing both, community members and social actors inside a political place, as the community builds its responses from experience, going through the rupture of the violent episodes, and, simultaneously, working for the construction of a resilient, positive and propositive subjectivity. This article is the epicenter of an alternative reflection for rethinking the traditional ways in which psychosocial interventions are carried out, since they help to broaden the perspective about risk and protection factors and favors the reading and creation of pillars for overcoming adverse experiences.