PrintColombia: Encourage a Gender Perspective
Goal: Encourage the analysis and articulation of a gender perspective in every phase of conflict prevention, management, peacemaking, peace-building, reconciliation, and reintegration.
Gender and the roles, responsibilities, and behaviors assigned to men and women permeate all conflict and post-conflict phases. Colombia’s internal armed conflict has had deleterious impacts on Colombian women, and gender-based violence has been particularly notorious both within the war and in society at large. USIP is supporting and engaging in the analysis and articulation of the gendered dimensions of Colombia's internal armed conflict and the specific impacts that conflict violence and displacement have on Colombian women.
The Institute has sponsored numerous public programs and publications that address the relationship of gender and conflict. Activities related to Colombia have included public forums, roundtables, conferences, and trainings on gender and displacement, gender and DDR (disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration), and (upcoming) gender and peace processes.
- Read about what women’s groups in Colombia are doing in relation to the conflict
- Learn more about a USIP event on gender and displacement
- Listen to a USIP event on female child soldiers and DDR in Sierra Leone, Nepal, and Colombia
- Learn more about the launch of a new USIP book on women and war
- Read a USIP Peace Brief, “The Other Side of Gender”.
Supporting Colombian Women’s Ecumenical Peacemaking
Through its programs and grants, USIP is working to empower women as agents for peace and to strengthen women’s role in fostering sustainable peace in Colombia, creating local mechanisms for resolving conflicts without violence, affirming the dignity of survivors, ensuring the non-repetition of violence, and contributing to reconciliation among Colombians. In this project, USIP is supporting the efforts of Justapaz and the Colombian Religious Conference of Women to create and consolidate a network of Catholic and Protestant women peacebuilders in Colombia, and to strengthen their capacity to contribute to peace from their particular vantage point as women of faith.
Women's Memories of War, Peace, and Resistance
USIP has been supporting the Gender Unit of the Historical Memory Group to develop new methodologies and partnerships with communities that have suffered violence to document their experiences and to contribute to the production of a comprehensive report on the gendered dynamics of war in the northern coastal region of Colombia.
Training on Gender and Reintegration, Reconciliation, and Reparations in Colombia
USIP has partnered with the Fundación Ideas para la Paz to conduct two training workshops, in Montería and Girardot, Colombia, respectively, on Gender and Reintegration, Reconciliation and Reparations.
Women as Peacebuilders: A Regional Case Study in Putumayo
USIP is supporting the work of anthropologist and former Peace Scholar Winifred Tate to study how women’s organizations in the department of Putumayo are engaging in local community-based conflict resolution.
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