A Gendered Peacebuilding Process: Challenges in DDR Programmes for Female Ex-combatants in Colombia

2024/08/16 by Laura Natalia Torres-Acosta
#Colombia #DDR programme #peacebuilding #reintegration process #women ex-combatant

paper · doi:10.5526/esj.297

Abstract

This article explores the challenges that former female combatants from the guerrilla FARC-EP have encountered since the signing of the Colombian peace agreement in 2016. Despite the gender perspective provisions and the international guidelines, ex-combatant women still confront gender stereotypes during the reintegration process.

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