Shaping the WPS agenda? The role of insurgent women in (post)peace agreement politics in Colombia

This small-scale project engages in post-peace agreement politics of insurgent women in Colombia through the lens of their participation in shaping the Women Peace and Security Agenda and the recently approved National Action Plan.

Under President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's government has tried to undergo negotiations with the ELN and other guerrilla groups. The country has also adopted its first national action plan for Women, Peace, and Security, and engaged in debates for its feminist foreign policy. Despite this, many women former combatants feel that their political reincorporation does not match the peace agreement concluded in 2016 between the FARC-EP guerrillas and the Colombian government.

Through an empirically driven and participatory feminist approach, the project’s overarching question is: In what ways are new actors, such as insurgent women and urban militants, shaping the WPS agenda in Colombia? It does so through a feminist multi-method approach and the mobilization of Latin American feminist scholars working on revolutionary feminisms and post-disarmament politics.

Researchers and partners:

• Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Swedish Defence University (PI)
• Laura Devia López, Mujeres Comuneras y Diversidad, Colombia (Co-researcher)