Compromisos de Paz en Doha - Proceso para la desmovilización del autodenominado Ejército Gaitanista de Colombia – (a)EGC y la construcción de paz con el pueblo en los territorios

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Country/entity: Colombia
Region: Americas
Agreement name: Compromisos de Paz en Doha - Proceso para la desmovilización del autodenominado Ejército Gaitanista de Colombia – (a)EGC y la construcción de paz con el pueblo en los territorios
Date: 5 Dec 2025
Agreement status: Multiparty signed/agreed
Interim arrangement: Yes
Agreement/conflict level: Intrastate/intrastate conflict
Colombian Conflict (1964 - )
The Colombian conflict is really a set of conflicts and the peace agreements reflect both different processes relating to different conflict groups and dyads, and processes taking place at different times in a complex peace process history. The Colombian civil war has its roots in the late 1940s and the violent infighting between liberal and the conservative factions. Emerging from the liberal tradition with a thorough grounding in nationalist communist ideology, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (FARC) began its armed insurrection against the Colombian government in 1964. Other left-wing guerrillas emerged as well, most notably the socialist/populist M-19, which would later be integrated into the formal political system in the peace process of 1990s; the National Liberation Army (ELN), which has strong roots in liberation theology, and the Maoist Ejército Popular de Liberación (EPL) (also part of the 1990 process, less successfully). Several stages of peace processes were undertaken by the various sides, which were further complicated by the emergence of right-wing paramilitary ‘self-defence’ forces. The peace agreement between the Colombian government under President Uribe and the main alliance of the paramilitary groups, the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), concluded in 2005 and is still heavily disputed as several remnants are still active, but now subsumed under the heading ‘Bacrim’ (Bandas criminales). In addition, FARC and ELN maintain a military presence, but both demonstrate a strong interest in completing successful peace negotiations with the government, with the most recent agreements being between FARC and the Government.
Stage: Framework/substantive - partial
Conflict nature: Government/territory
Peace process: Colombia VII - Petro Peace Dialogues with the Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia
Parties: Government of the Republic of Colombia:

Álvaro Jiménez Millán
Águeda Plata Gómez
Armando Custodio Woñiyu Valbuena

For the Joint General Staff of the (a)EGC:

Luis Armando Pérez Castañeda

Spokespersons not belonging to the (a)EGC:

Jóvany de Jesús Marín Zapata
Abimael Bohórquez Martínez
Wilton Martínez Blandón

Technical Team OCCP:

Giorgio Londoño Medina
Alfonso Mauledoux Varón

Lawyers not belonging to the (a)EGC:

Ricardo Andrés Giraldo Cifuentes
Enrique del Río González
Third parties: Observer from the Attorney General's Office (Procuraduría General de la Nación):

Néstor Iván Osuna Patiño, Delegate Prosecutor for Human Rights

Observers from the Public Forces (Fuerza Pública):

Navy Captain Marlon Fernando Cabrera (Observer Military Forces)
Lieutenant Colonel Camilo Andrés Medina (Observer National Police)
Description: This agreement establishes implementation mechanisms for the peace process between the Colombian government and the Gaitanista Army of Colombia (EGC), expanding pilot actions to additional municipalities and creating three Temporary Location Zones (ZUTs) for gradual combatant relocation beginning March 1, 2026. The agreement assigns the OAS Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia (MAPP/OEA) to monitor and verify commitments through a tripartite mechanism, while providing legal security guarantees including suspension of arrest and extradition warrants for combatants entering the zones. Building upon the Declaration of September 18, 2025, it progressively implements demobilization and peacebuilding measures across territories in Córdoba, Antioquia, Bolívar, and Chocó departments.

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Source of document: https://x.com/comisionadopaz/status/1996988280961720685?s=46

Groups

Children/youth: No specific mention.
Disabled persons: No specific mention.
Elderly/age: No specific mention.
Migrant workers: No specific mention.
Racial/ethnic/national group: No specific mention.
Religious groups: No specific mention.
Indigenous people: No specific mention.
Other groups: No specific mention.
Refugees/displaced persons: No specific mention.
Social class: No specific mention.

Gender

Women, girls and gender: No specific mention.
Men and boys: No specific mention.
LGBTI: No specific mention.
Family: No specific mention.

State definition

Nature of state (general): No specific mention.
State configuration: No specific mention.
Self determination: No specific mention.
Referendum: No specific mention.
State symbols: No specific mention.
Independence/secession: No specific mention.
Accession/unification: No specific mention.
Border delimitation: No specific mention.
Cross-border provision: No specific mention.

Governance

Political institutions (new or reformed): No specific mention.
Elections: To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
Consequently, we will preserve the integrity of this socio-legal process, preventing its exploitation for electoral purposes, and we call on everyone not to undermine these spaces with actions that affect their impartiality.
Electoral commission: No specific mention.
Political parties reform: No specific mention.
Civil society: No specific mention.
Traditional/religious leaders: No specific mention.
Public administration: No specific mention.
Constitution: No specific mention.

Power sharing

Political power sharing: No specific mention.
Territorial power sharing: No specific mention.
Economic power sharing: No specific mention.
Military power sharing: No specific mention.

Human rights and equality

Human rights/RoL general: No specific mention.
Bill of rights/similar: No specific mention.
Treaty incorporation: To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
i. Reiterate the invitation to the National Attorney General's Office to, in full exercise of its constitutional autonomy, report on the developments of the special mechanism for prioritising cases of complaints of violations of International Humanitarian Law requested by the working groups of this socio-legal process in the Doha Declaration of 18 September 2025.
Civil and political rights: Human rights and equality→Civil and political rights→Humane treatment in detention
To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
4. The government of the Republic of Colombia, the MAPP/OEA, and representatives of the (a)EGC shall take the necessary humanitarian actions to ascertain the health and dignity conditions of persons belonging to the (a)EGC who are detained in prisons and jails in the country and abroad, as an integral part of the socio-legal conversation process.
Socio-economic rights: No specific mention.

Rights related issues

Citizenship: No specific mention.
Democracy: No specific mention.
Detention procedures: To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
4. The government of the Republic of Colombia, the MAPP/OEA, and representatives of the (a)EGC shall take the necessary humanitarian actions to ascertain the health and dignity conditions of persons belonging to the (a)EGC who are detained in prisons and jails in the country and abroad, as an integral part of the socio-legal conversation process.
Media and communication: No specific mention.
Mobility/access: No specific mention.
Protection measures: No specific mention.
Other: No specific mention.

Rights institutions

NHRI: No specific mention.
Regional or international human rights institutions: No specific mention.

Justice sector reform

Criminal justice and emergency law: No specific mention.
State of emergency provisions: No specific mention.
Judiciary and courts: No specific mention.
Prisons and detention: No specific mention.
Traditional Laws: No specific mention.

Socio-economic reconstruction

Development or socio-economic reconstruction: No specific mention.
National economic plan: No specific mention.
Natural resources: No specific mention.
International funds: No specific mention.
Business: No specific mention.
Taxation: No specific mention.
Banks: No specific mention.

Land, property and environment

Land reform/rights: No specific mention.
Pastoralist/nomadism rights: No specific mention.
Cultural heritage: No specific mention.
Environment: No specific mention.
Water or riparian rights or access: No specific mention.

Security sector

Security Guarantees: To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
b. Adopt measures to provide legal and human security guarantees to combatants during the course of their transfer to the ZUTs, including the suspension of the execution of arrest warrants, as well as those for extradition purposes.
Ceasefire: No specific mention.
Police: No specific mention.
Armed forces: No specific mention.
DDR: Security sector→DDR→DDR programmes
To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
a. Issue the administrative act establishing the ZUTs, with a precise definition of the specific and determined rural locations of the ZUTs, and deliver to the Peace Commissioner Advisor the initial list of combatants who will enter the ZUTs from the (a)EGC.
...
b. Adopt measures to provide legal and human security guarantees to combatants during the course of their transfer to the ZUTs, including the suspension of the execution of arrest warrants, as well as those for extradition purposes.
c. Carry out educational work within the (a)EGC in line with the commitments made in the peace process for the transition of the armed group to the social rule of law.
d. Define the protocols corresponding to operation; security; logistics; breakdown; transit; follow-up, monitoring and verification; dispute resolution; communications; war material; pedagogy; and others deemed necessary, before 3 February 2026.
...
f. Prepare the logistical and administrative conditions for the ZUTs
g. Define progressive conditions to early contribute to the fulfilment of victims' rights upon entry into the ZUTs.
h. The working groups will continue to discuss the possible incorporation of new ZUTs, in accordance with the principles of gradualism and progressiveness.
Intelligence services: No specific mention.
Parastatal/rebel and opposition group forces: To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
a. Issue the administrative act establishing the ZUTs, with a precise definition of the specific and determined rural locations of the ZUTs, and deliver to the Peace Commissioner Advisor the initial list of combatants who will enter the ZUTs from the (a)EGC.
...
b. Adopt measures to provide legal and human security guarantees to combatants during the course of their transfer to the ZUTs, including the suspension of the execution of arrest warrants, as well as those for extradition purposes.
c. Carry out educational work within the (a)EGC in line with the commitments made in the peace process for the transition of the armed group to the social rule of law.
...
4. The government of the Republic of Colombia, the MAPP/OEA, and representatives of the (a)EGC shall take the necessary humanitarian actions to ascertain the health and dignity conditions of persons belonging to the (a)EGC who are detained in prisons and jails in the country and abroad, as an integral part of the socio-legal conversation process.
The (a)EGC shall provide the Peace Commissioner Advisor with a list of its members for this purpose.
...
The Socio-Legal Conversation Space respects the self-determination of the Gaitanista Army of Colombia, in accordance with Presidential Resolution 294 of 5 September 2025, and urges the State authorities to use this name in their work in order to clarify the established follow-up, monitoring and verification processes.
Withdrawal of foreign forces: No specific mention.
Corruption: No specific mention.
Crime/organised crime: No specific mention.
Drugs: To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
The working groups of the Socio-Legal Conversation Space reject accusations that this peace effort focuses on revealing information about drug trafficking leaders or structures.
Terrorism: No specific mention.

Transitional justice

Transitional justice general: No specific mention.
Amnesty/pardon: Transitional justice→Amnesty/pardon→Relief of other sanctions
To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
b. Adopt measures to provide legal and human security guarantees to combatants during the course of their transfer to the ZUTs, including the suspension of the execution of arrest warrants, as well as those for extradition purposes.
Courts: Transitional justice→Courts→National courts
To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
i. Reiterate the invitation to the National Attorney General's Office to, in full exercise of its constitutional autonomy, report on the developments of the special mechanism for prioritising cases of complaints of violations of International Humanitarian Law requested by the working groups of this socio-legal process in the Doha Declaration of 18 September 2025.
Mechanism: To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
i. Reiterate the invitation to the National Attorney General's Office to, in full exercise of its constitutional autonomy, report on the developments of the special mechanism for prioritising cases of complaints of violations of International Humanitarian Law requested by the working groups of this socio-legal process in the Doha Declaration of 18 September 2025.
Prisoner release: No specific mention.
Vetting: No specific mention.
Victims: To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
g. Define progressive conditions to early contribute to the fulfilment of victims' rights upon entry into the ZUTs.
Missing persons: No specific mention.
Reparations: No specific mention.
Reconciliation: No specific mention.

Implementation

UN signatory: No specific mention.
Other international signatory: No specific mention.
Referendum for agreement: No specific mention.
International mission/force/similar: The working groups for the Socio-Legal Conversation Space, meeting in the city of Doha, accompanied by the Group of Mediating Countries composed of the State of Qatar, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Norway and the Swiss Confederation, held the second session of talks and we have defined:
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2. Assign to the Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia of the Organisation of American States (MAPP/OEA), within the framework of a tripartite mechanism, the mandate to follow up, monitor and verify the commitments we have reached, promoting the necessary financial, technical, academic and logistical support measures in the aspects defined in the ‘Protocol for the follow-up, monitoring and verification of the peace commitments in Doha’.
The Municipal Working Groups (GTM) defined in the Doha Declaration of 18 September 2025 shall take into account the elements of follow-up, monitoring and verification set out in the aforementioned protocol.
...
To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:
...
e. Establish on 18 December 2025 the Tripartite Mechanism for Follow-up, Monitoring and Verification of the commitments made in relation to the ZUTs, in accordance with the provisions of the protocol annexed to this document.
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4. The government of the Republic of Colombia, the MAPP/OEA, and representatives of the (a)EGC shall take the necessary humanitarian actions to ascertain the health and dignity conditions of persons belonging to the (a)EGC who are detained in prisons and jails in the country and abroad, as an integral part of the socio-legal conversation process.
Enforcement mechanism: No specific mention.

PEACE COMMITMENTS IN DOHA

Process for the demobilisation of the self-styled Gaitanista Army of Colombia (EGC) and peacebuilding with the people in the territories

The working groups for the Socio-Legal Conversation Space, meeting in the city of Doha, accompanied by the Group of Mediating Countries composed of the State of Qatar, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Norway and the Swiss Confederation, held the second session of talks and we have defined:

1. Expand the area for implementing pilot actions that will enable the development of the trust-building stage to the municipalities of:

Ayapel, Montelíbano, Puerto Libertador, San José de Uré and Tierralata (Córdoba);

Cárceres, El Bagre and Nechí (Antioquia);

and El Carmen de Bolívar and San Jacinto (Bolívar).

These municipalities join the municipalities of Mutatá (Antioquia), Acandí, Belén de Bajirá, Ríosucio and Unguía (Chocó), previously defined in the Declaration of 18 September 2025, with the aim of extending the commitments established at municipal and national level, ensuring their implementation with territorial relevance.

2. Assign to the Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia of the Organisation of American States (MAPP/OEA), within the framework of a tripartite mechanism, the mandate to follow up, monitor and verify the commitments we have reached, promoting the necessary financial, technical, academic and logistical support measures in the aspects defined in the ‘Protocol for the follow-up, monitoring and verification of the peace commitments in Doha’.

The Municipal Working Groups (GTM) defined in the Doha Declaration of 18 September 2025 shall take into account the elements of follow-up, monitoring and verification set out in the aforementioned protocol.

3. Create three Temporary Location Zones (ZUT) in the municipalities of Belén de Bajirá, Unguía (Chocó) and Tierralta (Córdoba) for the gradual and progressive location, starting on 1 March 2026, of (a)EGC combatants in each of these zones.

To this end, the following measures shall be adopted:

a. Issue the administrative act establishing the ZUTs, with a precise definition of the specific and determined rural locations of the ZUTs, and deliver to the Peace Commissioner Advisor the initial list of combatants who will enter the ZUTs from the (a)EGC.

This list will be supplemented progressively and incrementally.

b. Adopt measures to provide legal and human security guarantees to combatants during the course of their transfer to the ZUTs, including the suspension of the execution of arrest warrants, as well as those for extradition purposes.

c. Carry out educational work within the (a)EGC in line with the commitments made in the peace process for the transition of the armed group to the social rule of law.

d. Define the protocols corresponding to operation; security; logistics; breakdown; transit; follow-up, monitoring and verification; dispute resolution; communications; war material; pedagogy; and others deemed necessary, before 3 February 2026.

e. Establish on 18 December 2025 the Tripartite Mechanism for Follow-up, Monitoring and Verification of the commitments made in relation to the ZUTs, in accordance with the provisions of the protocol annexed to this document.

f. Prepare the logistical and administrative conditions for the ZUTs

g. Define progressive conditions to early contribute to the fulfilment of victims' rights upon entry into the ZUTs.

h. The working groups will continue to discuss the possible incorporation of new ZUTs, in accordance with the principles of gradualism and progressiveness.

i. Reiterate the invitation to the National Attorney General's Office to, in full exercise of its constitutional autonomy, report on the developments of the special mechanism for prioritising cases of complaints of violations of International Humanitarian Law requested by the working groups of this socio-legal process in the Doha Declaration of 18 September 2025.

4. The government of the Republic of Colombia, the MAPP/OEA, and representatives of the (a)EGC shall take the necessary humanitarian actions to ascertain the health and dignity conditions of persons belonging to the (a)EGC who are detained in prisons and jails in the country and abroad, as an integral part of the socio-legal conversation process.

The (a)EGC shall provide the Peace Commissioner Advisor with a list of its members for this purpose.

We call on Colombian society to reaffirm peacebuilding as a common goal in the interests of all Colombians, regardless of their ideologies, beliefs or political positions.

Consequently, we will preserve the integrity of this socio-legal process, preventing its exploitation for electoral purposes, and we call on everyone not to undermine these spaces with actions that affect their impartiality.

The working groups of the Socio-Legal Conversation Space reject accusations that this peace effort focuses on revealing information about drug trafficking leaders or structures.

The Socio-Legal Conversation Space respects the self-determination of the Gaitanista Army of Colombia, in accordance with Presidential Resolution 294 of 5 September 2025, and urges the State authorities to use this name in their work in order to clarify the established follow-up, monitoring and verification processes.

Over the coming weeks, the working groups for the Socio-Legal Conversation Space will carry out the consultations and activities necessary to fulfil these commitments.

The agendas, dates and composition of the delegations will remain confidential, ensuring the integrity of the peace process.

We would like to express our gratitude to the State of Qatar, in particular for its hospitality and for creating the conditions for this session to take place, to the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Norway and the Swiss Confederation for their mediation, as well as to the MAPP/OEA for its support and the National Attorney General's Office for its observation.

Doha, Qatar, 5 December 2025

Signed:

Government of the Republic of Colombia:

• Álvaro Jiménez Millán

• Águeda Plata Gómez

• Armando Custodio Woñiyu Valbuena

For the Joint General Staff of the (a)EGC:

• Luis Armando Pérez Castañeda

Spokespersons not belonging to the (a)EGC:

• Jóvany de Jesús Marín Zapata

• Abimael Bohórquez Martínez

• Wilton Martínez Blandón

Technical Team OCCP:

• Giorgio Londoño Medina

• Alfonso Mauledoux Varón

Observer from the Attorney General's Office (Procuraduría General de la Nación):

• Néstor Iván Osuna Patiño, Delegate Prosecutor for Human Rights

Observers from the Public Forces (Fuerza Pública):

• Navy Captain Marlon Fernando Cabrera (Observer Military Forces)

• Lieutenant Colonel Camilo Andrés Medina (Observer National Police)

Lawyers not belonging to the (a)EGC:

• Ricardo Andrés Giraldo Cifuentes

• Enrique del Río González