Farian women and the peace agreement in Colombia; an approach to insurgent feminism

Abstract

In this article, some of the fundamentals are proposed to generate new ways of thinking, feeling and creating from the feminist conscience of women who have been linked to different roles and experiences of war and peace. The construction of peace is disputed from the war itself and the ways in which combatant and non-combatant women took actions that allowed them to resist and be central protagonists of peace agreements, social mobilizations and processes of political representation. In this sense, it is important to identify three aspects corresponding to the experience they have had within the framework of the Final Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Lasting Peace as follows: 1. The construction of a gender for peace 2. Collective identity of women in resistance for peace and 3. Elements for an insurgent feminism.

The first aspect allowed the development of the second and third through the creation of the gender approach in a context of tensions and arrangements where women, particularly guerrillas, disputed a space of recognition and dialogue that ended up mainstreaming the Peace Agreement. This article aims to develop these three aspects as characteristic elements to understand some of the disputes and resistance of women in peace transitions, particularly on the experience of the women who signed the Peace Agreement and in memory of the women annihilated by the counterinsurgency.