Local Peace Councils
As a consequence of the promulgation of Law 434 and the creation of the National Peace Council, the facultative creation of Regional and Municipal Peace Councils was enabled at decentralized government levels, with representation of governments and organized civil society from each region or locality. They can carry out a wide range of actions and interventions, including: social training for communities and public servants on post-conflict communal living, dialogue with insurgent groups with the goal of the cessation of hostilities, humanitarian aid to victims of the conflict, and the appointment of peace negotiators, among many others. As of 2015, 177 local peace councils had been established and another 100 were in the process of being institutionalized, distributed throughout the country.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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