This paper aims to answer how the informal peace process developed in Colombia (2012 -2016) tried to achieve a significant political participation of women before, during and in the implementation of the peace process. This argument will be complemented with additional questions, such as: What was the political participation of women amidst the peace negotiation? What were the political conditions for women in a democratic sphere during the negotiations? What were the achievements in the negotiations in terms of women and gender interests? To pursue these lines of inquiry, this document will draw on examples from the Colombian peace process to demonstrate the changes that took place when women’s organizations and feminists’ movements moved beyond their activism within civil society to become more formally engaged in the politics of peace negotiation, until finally consolidating their involvement in what is known the Sub-commission on gender. This paper adopts a feminist theoretical approach on concepts such as gender justice, human security, and political participation to analyze spaces of representation that cross public domains. This contributes to 1). inquire about the protracted structural Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and 2). questioning how questions how the struggles and the grasped opportunities of the “historical moment” to frame gender-specific interests within the new legislative act of the Final Agreement (McWilliams, 2015). In terms of parameters, this paper will contemplate solely the political participation of civilian women and women’s organizations in the civil society; it will not consider the participation of female former combatants of the FARC-EP.
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