Yirley Velazco is a human rights activist who supports and protects women victim-survivors of armed conflict and domestic violence in Colombia’s Montes de María region. Although the Colombian government famously signed peace accords to limit armed conflict violence in 2017, the Montes de María region has not witnessed peace. In this chapter, in conversation with Kiran Stallone, Velazco reflects on the meaning of the distinct silences that she has encountered in her work with women victims of conflict and domestic violence. While silence can be driven by fear, Velazco’s work with women survivors also reveals that there are also other types of silences that are strategic. Stallone supplements Velazco’s reflections on silence with insights into how these silences fit into the existing academic literature on civilian agency in conflict. More specifically, strategic silences reveal that women civilians in conflict zones are not merely passive victims, but agents in their own protection. Velazco also reflects on the meaning of her activism, the challenges and violence she has faced as a result of her public-facing work, and her experience confronting one of the men who perpetrated violence against her.