After more than 50 years of internal armed conflict, Colombian society promoted dialogue between the Colombian State and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP), leading to the signing in 2016 of the Final Peace Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Lasting Peace (AFP). This treaty, supported by the international community, proposes a route for collective action to address the structural problems that caused the political, social, environmental, economic, cultural and armed conflict.

Among its main points is addressing the problem of land in Colombia regarding its use, ownership and distribution, framed within the Comprehensive Rural Reform as a fundamental step towards Agrarian Reform. Along with this, it proposes the deepening of democracy through political opening and a process of national reconciliation that put the victims of the conflict at the center of this peace agreement, focusing on restorative justice, collective reparation and guarantees of non-repetition for the victims.

Point three of the Agreement focuses on attention to combatants in their transition and mobilization towards the legality denied by the confrontation with the Colombian State. Initially, Transitional Normalization Village Zones (ZVTN) were built as spaces for the grouping and collective peace-building process of the signatories of the Peace Agreement. These zones later became Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation (ETCR) in order to advance the comprehensive route of reincorporation, which obliges the Colombian State to guarantee the effective enjoyment of economic, political, social and cultural rights as agreed.

The Héctor Ramírez population center, located in the Aguabonita II Village, La Montañita Municipality, Caquetá Department. This Population Center was one of the first twenty-four (24) Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation (ETCR), where peace signatories in coordination with rural and urban communities, together with their peasant, communal, indigenous, youth, women etc.

The Association of Women Producers of Essences of Peace – ASMUPROPAZ, a group of peasant and indigenous women, promoted the comprehensive implementation of the AFP through the development of dialogue, pedagogy and reconciliation processes; together with socio-productive projects in the interest of the collective construction of a culture of and for peace towards Good Living in the territory.

In the dynamic generated by the implementation of the AFP in the municipality of La Montañita, the Association of Women Producers of Essences of Peace – ASMUPROPAZ, emerged as a collective space to promote the construction of alternative bets for production and cultural action for Peace and to promote social and environmental reconciliation in the territory. ASMUPROPAZ works for gender equality, the defense of human rights and sustainability, promoting comprehensive initiatives that strengthen the social fabric and promote the care of ecosystems.

Among its collective bets is the Project “The Route of Reconciliation to the Páramo” which reflects in its dynamics the commitment to territorial transformation, integrating peasant communities in sustainable development processes that harmonize with the protection of biodiversity. There is also a restoration program worked with the community, which promotes regenerative livestock actions, adaptive plans in communal farms and biological corridors. For its part, through the project “Essences of the Amazon for Peace” women signatories of the Peace Agreement together with women from local communities of La Montañita, promote the sustainable production and transformation of aromatic and medicinal plants into bio-cosmetic products.

The visit will allow to know and make visible the collective proposal of ASMUPROPAZ and ten other local processes for the construction of cultures of Peace, social and environmental reconciliation, defense of the territory, reconstruction of the social fabric and the harmonious relationship with nature and the effective enjoyment of the rights of the peasantry and nature.