Women's role in peace agreements in Colombia: The international agenda

Abstract

Peace agreements in Colombia have become an international benchmark by bringing to an end fifty-nine years of armed conflicts in the country and assimilating new legal instruments in the United Nations framework on the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Thus, this transformation of securitisation narratives is mediated by the dialogues of women's organisations, which, in conjunction with Security Council Resolution 1325, have promoted their greater participation in negotiation processes, as well as the incorporation of a gender approach to peace agreements. Therefore, they have broken into an initially masculinized space. Based on the examination of the different peace agreements that have taken place in Colombia and the gender dynamics that permeate them, this article evinces how a change in gender narratives, based on hegemonic speeches, has been achieved and how, consequently, women have become political female-subjects necessary for achieving peace in Colombia.