Citizen Mandate for Peace, Life and Freedom
The Citizen Mandate for Peace, Life and Freedom was an initiative promoted by the National Network of Citizen Initiatives Against War and for Peace (Span. REDEPAZ) together with Free Country and UNICEF, which sought the mobilization of the Colombians in order to constitute a peace force that demanded peaceful solutions to the Conflict and respect for human rights. The initiative also required armed individuals to stop fighting and respect the civilian population to sit down and build a lasting peace agreement. The Mandate was expressed in the direct vote of the citizens at the polls, as it was possible for the National Registry to provide logistical support. In this way, the vote for the Mandate took place simultaneously with the elections of governors, mayors, deputies and councilors on October 26, 1997. The Mandate for Peace attracted 10 million Colombians in 1997 through their vote. This initiative contributed in time to the construction of a space in which civil society and non-governmental institutions could participate in order to stop the war.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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