Logical avenues of investigation: a contribution of the Inter-American human rights system to the prosecution of systematic crimes in transitional justice frameworks
Juana Acosta-López & Lina Álvarez
The article analyzes the importance of the logical avenues of investigation in the prosecution of crimes pursued by the Inter-American human rights system within a transitional justice framework.
Statement before the Congress of the Republic against the draft statutory law on the plebiscite on the Peace Agreement
Juana Inés Acosta López, Iván Garzón Vallejo, Fabio Enrique Pulido Ortiz, Vicente F. Benítez R., Cristian Felipe Rojas & Cindy Vanessa Espitia Murcia
The text represents a citizen intervention before the Congress of the Republic on the plebiscite on the Peace Agreement.
The normative dimension of transitional justice, the Inter-American system of human rights and negotiations with armed groups in Colombia
Rocío del Pilar Peña Huertas & Manuel Fernando Quinche Ramírez
This text outlines a challenge within the normative dimension of transitional justice – the challenge of ensuring that the legal component of the IACHR Court’s rules on victims’ rights is assumed as an effective obligation.
Challenges of the SJP in the area of LGBTI victims’ right to justice and reparation
Andrés Felipe Martín Parada
Based on a study of the Inter-American Human Rights System and Colombian law, this article illustrates how LGBTI people’s rights have been recognized in conditions of armed conflict.
Punishment and pardon: The use of international humanitarian law by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia
María Camila Florez Correa, Andrés Felipe Martín Parada y Juan Francisco Soto Hoyos
This article illustrates how the use of international humanitarian law in the context of transitional justice can, on the one hand, ensure the enforcement of hardest penalties to perpetrators, while on the other hand turn into tool for the granting of amnesties.
Intervention of the "Semillero de Investigación en Justicia Transicional" and the Legal Clinic of the Universidad de La Sabana against the unconstitutionality lawsuit filed against Article 7 of Law 1922 of 2018
Juana Acosta-López, Ana Idárraga, Cindy Espitia-Murcia, Jose Miguel Rueda, Paula Daniela Infante, Karen Susana Montaño & Michelle Valeria Infante
This intervention defends the idea that Article 7 of Law 1922 of 2018 is constitutional. For this, several arguments related to the principles of legality and equality of arms are presented.
Constitutionalization of the Integral System of Truth, Justice and Reparation in Colombia: some comments on political participation and command responsibility
Juana Acosta López & Carlos Arévalo
This paper explores: i) the political participation of ex-combatants in light of international law and victims' rights, and ii) the vicissitudes of responsibility of command.
The role of reparations in Colombian transitional justice: contributions from a teleological point of view
Maria Carmelina Londoño-Lázaro, María Del Pilar Gutiérrez-Perilla & Paula Andrea Roa-Sánchez
This article proposes that reparations should be approached from a teleological point of view, which would make it possible to enhance their role, articulating individual and collective rights.
Past, Present and Future of Transitional Justice in the Inter-American Human Rights System
Juana Acosta-López y Cindy Espitia Murcia
Este artículo pretende analizar la jurisprudencia de la Corte IDH para saber si las reglas establecidas por ella han sido adaptadas a contextos de tránsito de conflicto armado a la paz.
Agreement on the management of illicit drugs between the government and the FARC-EP guerrilla. Towards a less punitive and militaristic treatment of the drug phenomenon
Alejandro Aponte-Cardona
This text studies the agreement on the management of illicit drugs in the context of the negotiation between the Government and the State and the guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Macrocriminality and criminal function in a transitional logic: possible contributions of criminal law to guarantees of non-repetition
Alejandro Aponte-Cardona
This paper, in a transitional logic and in the context of the Colombian transitional model, explores the meaning of punishment and the implementation of the justice model agreed upon in the Peace Accord.
The Colombian Peace Process in light of other international experiences of conflict resolution: Why is it exceptional?
Juana Acosta-López
The article addresses the complexities of Colombia's peacebuilding context and the role of international bodies in the analysis and review of transitional justice models.
The Inter-American Human Rights System and the Colombian peace: Redefining the fight against impunity
Juana Acosta-López
This article discusses how the results of the plebiscite suggest that Colombia's international obligations regarding the right to justice will be a key issue in this new phase after the plebiscite.
Substitution trial: the political participation of ex-combatants as a development of the participatory democratic framework. Book chapter in: "Justicia de Transición y Constitución II: Análisis de la Sentencia C-577 de 2014 de la Corte Constitucional"
Juana Acosta-López & María Carmelina Londoño-Lázaro
The text analyzes the judgment of substitution made by the Constitutional Court in sentence C-577 of 2014, concluding that the article does not replace the constitution, but rather develops essential elements of it.
Logical avenues of investigation: a contribution of the Inter-American human rights system to the prosecution of systematic crimes in transitional justice frameworks
Juana Acosta-López & Lina Álvarez
The article analyzes the importance of the logical avenues of investigation in the prosecution of crimes pursued by the Inter-American human rights system within a transitional justice framework.
National criminal prosecution of homicide of protected persons: Scope and limits of criminal law in transitional justice contexts
Alejandro Aponte-Cardona
This article studies the progress and limits of national criminal prosecution of homicide of protected persons as an international crime.
Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law
CEDPAL, KAS, et. al.
This book presents the papers of the international symposium Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law: Philosophical and legal dimensions as results of research projects on different topics related to the peace process in Colombia.
Strengths and weaknesses of criminal prosecutions and truth commissions in addressing large-scale human rights violations, i.e. genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Héctor Olasolo Alonso
Taking a de lege ferenda criminal policy perspective, this chapter studies the main political-criminal dilemma the liberal model of transitional justice is facing.
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