The gender approach in the implementation of the Peace Agreement in the municipality of Puerto López (Meta, Colombia)

Abstract

The Peace Agreement signed between the National Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) does not materialize with the signature between the parties. It requires collective, organized and articulated work with State institutions at different levels, civil society and the productive sector with a gender approach. The objective of the study was to analyze the implementation of the Peace Agreement in the municipality of Puerto López (Meta) from the dimension of the gender perspective. This is a qualitative study at a descriptive level supported by the fundamentals of the interpretative paradigm. The method used corresponded to discourse analysis. Eleven (11) people participated in the study to whom a semi-structured interview divided into three dimensions was applied. The data was subjected to a process of codification and categorization resulting from the hermeneutic exercise on textual units. The Atlas Ti software was used in order to systematize the collected data. From the analysis of the interviews and the transformation of the data until its saturation, two inductive categories were identified, 14 axial codes and 92 open codes. The first emerging category shows the empowerment of the gender approach discourse, which is far from the perspectives and expectations of women and which requires a transformation in practice and spaces for participation. The second category reveals the urgency of reinforcing the gender-woman approach with other types of approaches such as ethnicity and LGTBI to recognize situations, expectations and particular needs of women victims -transectionality-. It would be, therefore, cumulative approaches for the generation of affirmative actions that lead to human development and comprehensive transformative reparation.