Las experiencias de participación de las personas LGBTI en los Consejos Territoriales de Paz, Reconciliación y Convivencia en el marco del Acuerdo Final de Paz en Colombia

Abstract

Colombia’s Final Peace Agreement is considered innovative worldwide, as it introduces the principle of gender equality for its implementation. Its signing has provided an opportunity for LGBTI organizations to advocate for an inclusive and affirmative peace that furthers the recognition of their rights. As part of the territorial implementation and the strengthening of local political participation, the agreement reformed the Local Councils for Peace, Reconciliation and Social Cohesion (CTPRC). In this article, we employ interviews and document analysis to explore the local experiences of LGBTI people’s participation in the territorial implementation of the agreement and the CTPRCs. It also reflects on the impact of their participation in promoting the recognition of their human rights and equal participation. These actions are framed in what contemporary currents of peace studies have called critical peace or post-liberal peace. The article argues that the CTPRCs, as spaces for territorial participation in the agreement, have provided an explicit arena for LGBTI people and organizations, but this participation has yet to be translated into the strengthening of their human rights, in building a heterogeneous territorial peace, and in ensuring safe, stigmatization-free environments.