Justicia de género y tierras en Colombia: Desafíos para la era del ‘pos-acuerdo’
Author(s) -
Donny Meertens
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european review of latin american and caribbean studies | revista europea de estudios latinoamericanos y del caribe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1879-4750
pISSN - 0924-0608
DOI - 10.18352/erlacs.10166
Subject(s) - humanities , political science , art
Gender and Land Justice in Colombia: Challenges for the Post-Peace Accords Era With the signature of a Peace Accord between FARC guerrilla and the Colombian Government in August 2016, the country confronts a great number of challenges in terms of the implementation, not only of the immediate actions needed to carry out the DDR process for ex-combatants and the truth, justice and reparations measures for the victims, but also of the long-term democratic transformations agreed upon at the negotiations table. In this exploration I will reflect on the scope of land restitution as a measure of reparations, and its transformative potential in terms of gender justice. Colombia is the first country in Latin America in which these two elements, land and gender, have been explicitly included in the peace process. One of the conclusions of this reflection is that more institutional support is needed for rural women’s organizations in order to consolidate the results of a gender-just land restitution and link these to the rural reforms of the peace agenda, as a contribution to a more democratic participation of men and women in post-conflict rural development. Resumen Con la firma del Acuerdo de Paz entre FARC guerrilla y el Gobierno de Colombia, en agosto de 2016, el pais enfrenta un sinnumero de desafios para la implementacion de lo pactado, no solo en lo inmediato (desarme-desmovilizacion-reintegracion de excombatientes y de justicia-verdad-reparacion para las victimas) sino frente a las transformaciones democraticas estipuladas para el pos-conflicto. En esta exploracion reflexiono sobre la restitucion de tierras como medida de reparacion a victimas y su alcance transformativo en terminos de justicia de genero. Colombia es el primer pais en America Latina en el cual estos dos elementos, tierras y genero, han sido incorporados explicitamente en un proceso de paz. Una de las conclusiones de esta reflexion es que se requiere un mayor impulso institucional a la organizacion de las mujeres rurales para consolidar los resultados de la restitucion, articularlos a la reforma agraria pactada en el Acuerdo de Paz y contribuir asi a una participacion mas democratica de hombres y mujeres en el desarrollo rural del pos-conflicto.
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