Colombian PDET. A Key strategy to build peace from below? A case study of the vision of territorial peace of the PDET Montes de María.

Abstract

In 2016 the Colombian State and the oldest guerrilla of Latin America ‘FARC’ signed a peace accord in order to end the 60 years internal conflict. As part of it, the Development Plans with a Territorial Approach (PDET) were created to promote territorial development, the effective enjoyment of rights, decentralization, and citizen participation. This paper investigates about the conception of peace contained in the theoretical model of the PDET, and explores about the different visions of peace in Montes de Maria. There are tensions that relate to unlike understandings of development, the local implications of the conflict and peacebuilding. Building peace require a territorial, ethnic, gender, and participation focus which should be vital features of for the PDETs.