Intersectoral Dialogue Table on the Culture of Peace and Reconciliation
The "Intersectoral Dialogue Table on the Culture of Peace and Reconciliation" was a participatory citizen initiative that began in 2002. Its objective was to identify the minimum requirements that a country needs to begin a process of reconciliation in response to the commitments made by the State during the Peace Accords. Approximately, 115 people participated in a dialogue lasting about a year, which resulted in an action plan and concrete proposals for its implementation. This public policy followed the four documents of consensus that were delineated during the intersectorial dialogue, in addition to the guidelines agreed upon by the different sectors of the Guatemalan society: the Culture of Peace, State-Society Relations, the Evaluation of compliance with the recommendations of the Commission for Historical Clarification and Reconciliation. This participatory initiative is part of a series of six intersectorial working groups created in 2002 during the Guatemala Consultative Group Meeting in Washington ? a meeting of national and international representatives who supported the process of national reconciliation. These dialogue tables were spaces for deliberation and consensus, which gave rise to public policies and initiatives that supported the implementation of the commitments of the Peace Accords.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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