National Peace Council
The National Peace Council is an organization created with the purpose of promoting the achievement and maintenance of peace, with the power to advise the National Government on these issues. This Council expressly seeks the inclusion and participation of civil society, establishing a constant integration and collaboration between private entities and state bodies, so that political alternatives for negotiation in the armed conflict can be built, and in this way make it possible to reaffirm the Social relations that ensure a permanent and integral peace. The Council's axis is the Peace Policy, which is available to the government in which it is implemented or convened. The formation of this Council includes, from the Government: the President of the Republic, the high commissioner for peace, various ministers, senators and representatives to the chamber, and organizations of state control. From civil society: representatives of business guilds, black communities, indigenous communities, rural poor, as well as representatives of the Catholic Church and other religious denominations, officials and representatives of the military in retreat; Representatives of universities, human rights defenders, demobilized and displaced by violence. Its creation occurred in 1998 and since then has had several moments of activation and deactivation, depending mainly on the current President and the pressures of civil society. It was active during the last peace process with the FARC.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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