Conversations Table - Peace Talks
The Conversation Tables that were held within the framework of the Peace Talks (also known as preparatory hearings) were implemented with the aim of discussing, jointly with the civil society, the first point of the common agenda between the Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army: "Participation of Civil Society in the Construction of Peace". This democratic innovation consisted of eight face-to-face and two virtual dialogue tables, in which both delegations debated with 211 citizens who represented different sectors of the population (Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities, churches, organizations of victims, peasants, women and LGBTI, among others). These spaces of participation took place from October 30 to November 13, 2017. They addressed two specific issues: the participation mechanisms that should be implemented for each sector within the peace dialogues, and the existing forms of citizen participation that should be incorporated.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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