Rural life in many of the Colombian territories goes by in an environment characterized by the yoke of the conflict and by processes of spontaneity and slowness that operated abruptly break under the gaze of its inhabitants causing major impacts on their lives; they are led to the anonymity, the disagreement and the loss of identity in the necessary relationship with the inhabited space. These impacts and processes of uprooting and depersonalization of rural life are precisely those that demand and justify comprehensive interventions that restore the life of this territorial environment and that favor the generation of new dynamics of appropriation and consensus on a territory that has been taken from them by the effects of the conflict, although it has always been theirs. Through the Participatory Action Research (IAP) approach, a process of immersion is carried out in rural communities of Magdalena Caldense and from collaborative work, using both social mapping and physical spatial analysis from the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), it is achieved to co-create the context of territorial development scaled up and validated in a scenario of rural development as a bet to advance to peace processes. The settlers, the protagonists of the process, find, in the pain and the oppression, the opportunity to lead the transformation of their realities, in order to recover themselves and to guarantee the sustainable development of their local environment facing the current public politics. Recognizing their territory and modeling it from their strengths and constraints undoubtedly contributes to the strengthening of their collective capacities as a requirement to advance peace-building processes in alignment with a regulatory framework that considers the integrality of development and that calls for new ways of addressing it.