Posts Tagged ‘Derecho a la paz’
Why Same-Sex Adoption Should Not Be Put to Vote
The current binary in Colombia presents an opportunity to ask when populations should vote on specific policies.
Read MorePeace, Black Folks, and Indigenous Peoples
Even though unfinished, the peace negotiations between the government and the FARC are giving unexpected results, that show both the opportunities and the most difficult challenges of post-conflict.
Read MoreAn Ultimatum for the FARC?
Last week, The Economist commented on the peace process in Colombia. In an editorial titled “Time to Call the Farc’s Bluff”, the magazine recognizes the process’ progress, but worries about the critical moment that the process finds itself in given recent violence and the lack of concrete agreements regarding transitional justice.
Read MorePeace Remains the Path to Follow
A couple weeks ago I traveled to Florence to give a talk about transitional justice in a workshop series that have a suggestive but ambitious name: “How to Narrate Peace.”
Read MoreThe Subtle Vengeance of the Law
“The rich don’t need the law because they already have money and power; it is the poor that need the law,” once said Albie Sachs, the lengendary South African activist that advised Mandela in the peace dialogues and became judge of the first post-Apartheid Constitutional Court.
Read MoreTransitional Justice for Everyone?
President Gaviria’s ideas about peace are extremely useful if they are taken as the author suggests: as thoughts for a debate where they would have to be made more precise and adapted. But interpreted as some have done— like finished proposals— they are as problematic as incomplete.
Read MoreThe ICC and Negotiated Peace: Reflections from Colombia
The Colombian case shows the need for flexibility in balancing the duty to prosecute international crimes with the duty to negotiate an end to the civil war.
Read MoreReferendum as Process
One of the problems with the discussion about a referendum on the peace accord in that many give it at least two different meanings, which are linked but are important to distinguish, to debate the issue more productively and find better solutions.
Read MorePeace and Referendum
It could be that the Public Prosecutor is correct in saying that a Peace Agreement with the FARC does not legally require a referendum. However, it is necessary considering democratic political legitimacy.
Read MoreDrug Trafficking and Political Crimes
A new controversial topic of the peace process has circulated the public debate in the past few days: the possibility of considering “drug trafficking” as a crime related to political crimes.
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