Peasant Guard
The Peasant Guard of Catatumbo is a regional collective of peasant security that intends to defend the territory and human rights of those who inhabit it. The initiative emerged as an organ of the Peasant Association of Catatumbo during the context of the national agrarian strike of 2013, and became official in the regional constituent of Catatumbo in 2014. It was born in response to the need for a peasant security body to take charge of maintaining peace in the communities of the region. Facing the threats of the armed actors only through dialogue and the peaceful resolution of conflicts. The Peasant Guard of Catatumbo takes as a reference model the organization, methods and struggles of the Indigenous Guard in Cauca.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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