Regional Meetings for Peace
The Regional Meetings for Peace were a series of meetings held in 2014 and 2015 in the regions with the highest incidences of the Colombian armed conflict in order to identify and strengthen the capacities and challenges towards the construction of a sustainable peace in these territories. To achieve this, social dialogue was promoted, informing about the process of negotiation between the Government and the FARC guerrillas to analyze the challenges, perspectives and changes required from the regional realities and experiences, reflecting on the role of the regions in the implementation of negotiation agreements and identifying territorial peace agendas and mechanisms for their implementation. The Regional Meetings were an initiative of civil society organizations, although throughout their development they had the support of the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace of the National Government and of different embassies. In total, 17 Meetings were held in different regions, which allowed for links between the issues on which there is a partial agreement at the negotiating table and the concerns and proposals of peace that some social stakeholders have from their territories.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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