Demobilized Women in Colombia

Avoine, Priscyll Anctil; Tillman, Rachel

doi:10.1057/9781137516565.0017

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“…These include a reductive focus on – and even fetishisation of – sexual violence at the expense of all other issues affecting women (Autesserre, 2010; Eriksson-Baaz and Stern, 2013; Meger, 2016); the depoliticisation, infantilisation and ‘feminisation’ of victims’ categories such as refugees (Dogra, 2011); the grouping of women and children into a single category (Carpenter, 2005); the reification of violence as masculine (e.g. Avoine and Tillman, 2015); and the refusal to acknowledge women’s active agency in conflict (Gentry and Sjoberg, 2015).…”

Section: Women Peace and The Reordering Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The unspoken red-line in Colombia: Gender reordering of women ex-combatants and the transformative peace agenda

Gutiérrez¹,

Murphy²

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Academic perspectives on women in conflict have been consistently moving away from the reductionist narrative of victimhood or deviation from gender norms. Yet, this narrative is still predominant in humanitarian discourses, while it is assumed that women’s participation in peacebuilding derives from their natural proclivities. These narratives, we argue, reinforce the gendered patriarchal post-conflict order as ex-combatant women are pushed into traditional roles through reintegration processes without addressing gendered structural and systemic violence. This article is based on the Colombian case, where a peace agreement in 2016 marked the official end to decades of conflict between FARC-EP rebels and the government. While deep changes were promised, the reality for women ex-combatants has been – despite unprecedented levels of women’s participation – a reordering into traditional roles and a reinforcement of conjugal order rather than a transformative progression towards peacetime emancipation. We argue that, while the government claimed that the economic and political systems were non-negotiable red-lines, there was also another unspoken red-line: that of gender roles. This article argues that addressing the gendered structural roots of conflicts in order to build sustainable peace requires a decisive participation of women, including former rebel combatants whose potential contribution to transformative peacebuilding are often ignored.

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Section: Women Peace and The Reordering Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although some scholars still argue that violence is quintessentially masculine, while peace is transcendentally feminine (Gilmartin, 2017) – a metaphysics according to which women who engage in violence become men (e.g. Avoine and Tillman, 2015) – the terms of the academic debate have shifted decisively.…”

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The unspoken red-line in Colombia: Gender reordering of women ex-combatants and the transformative peace agenda

Gutiérrez¹,

Murphy²

2022

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Demobilized Women in Colombia

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The unspoken red-line in Colombia: Gender reordering of women ex-combatants and the transformative peace agenda

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