Engendered Peace Processes and Women’s Political Participation: Lessons from Colombia
Engendered Peace Processes and Women’s Political Participation: Lessons from Colombia
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促成和平进程和妇女政治参与:哥伦比亚的经验教训
DOI:
10.1080/14623528.2023.2212521
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
Salazar-Escalante, Luisa
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作者:
Salazar-Escalante, Luisa
The Colombian armed conflict has been the longest civil war in the Western Hemisphere, 2 lasting over fifty years and leaving almost 9,237,000 victims. 3 The conflict between the state and guerrilla groups, including the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), reached an inflection point in 2012, after the beginning of the governmentLs peace negotiations with FARC. This process led to FARC and the Colombian government signing a Final Peace Agreement in 2016. The Peace Agreement has been recognized around the globe as a benchmark for gender mainstreaming in peace processes. 4 This recognition stems first from the participation of women and their organizations in the negotiations and, second, from the incorporation of gender provisions in all aspects of the Agreement. The Peace Agreement thus represents a commitment of the Colombian State to the political, social, and economic empowerment of women, and to closing the gender gap between men and women. ColombiaLs peace process is thus hailed as an effort towards an “engendered” peace, referring to its commitment to equal rights for men and women, the recognition of the special circumstances women faced during the conflict, and even more to the standard of mainstreaming gender in all parts of the agreement. Because of this, in the WomenLs Rights After War project, we explore the multifaceted relationship between the lives of women, the legal and institutional reforms resulting from the peace process, and the