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Transitional Justice: The great Colombian challenge

No country in the world has conceived and decided to implement such comprehensive and multifaceted justice process as Colombia. This transitional justice was born out of the historic peace agreements, at the end of 2016, between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Trials, truth-seeking, reparations, land and other reforms, the rights of indigenous peoples, the search for the disappeared, the reintegration of ex-combatants, reconciliation initiatives, remembrance work, and so on: in a polarized political context, Justice Info reports and analyzes how the country is implementing an extremely ambitious project, each component of which is linked to the others. An experiment that will inevitably be scrutinized and studied all over the world.

The original internal sin of Colombia’s JEP

An opaque recruitment process at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has brought unease and criticism. It came in stark contrast to the exemplary way judges of the transitional justice criminal court were selected. It also highlighted the consequences of an early, detrimental decision by top judges in allocating the crucial and limited senior legal […]
By Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (our correspondent in Colombia)
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Pending the publication of our next unpublished articles dedicated to this special focus about the colombian transitional justice, consult all of our publications dedicated to Colombia, since 2015.

Dessin illustrant la justice transitionnelle en Colombie
Illustration : © Amalia Satizabal for JusticeInfo.net