Julia Margaret Zulver’s (she/her/hers) research documents how women’s mobilization in post-Accord Colombia can lead to increased and gendered acts of violence against them.
Read MoreFelipe Jaramillo Ruiz & María Catalina Monroy write about the interaction between domestic politics and foreign policy – in the gendering of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC).
Read MoreJulia Sachseder draws on extensive ethnographic research in in Colombia to shed light on structural forces that have rendered possible, yet invisible overt and structural violence.
Read MoreColombia’s 2016 peace agreements between the government and the FARC-EP guerrillas are the most progressive in history in terms of their inclusion of women. The accords pay special attention to violence suffered by women in the armed conflict, use gender-inclusive language, encourage women’s political participation, and guarantee land rights. But feminist peace organizations in Colombia envision an even more comprehensive peace – one that focuses not only on the inclusion of women, but on tackling some of the deep roots of Colombia’s conflict that the peace accords leave untouched. These include deep-seated patriarchy, militarism, and free market hegemony.
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