Abstract
Women’s Roles: In Brief
Official Roles
Miriam Coronel-Ferrer led the Philippine government’s negotiating team and was the first—and remains the only—woman chief negotiator in history to sign a major peace accord. Women’s formal participation was high relative to other peace processes since 1990: women served as 33 percent of negotiators and represented 25 percent of the signatories to the agreement.
Civil Society Efforts
Women’s groups ran grassroots campaigns to gather input for the formal peace process and relay updates to the public, which helped to ease community mistrust of the process.