Posts Tagged ‘Posconflicto’
Warnings about rural tourism in the post-conflict
If the rural tourism policies implemented in victimized communities are not accompanied by public policies, we will soon see new forms of dispossession, exile, and land ownership changes in the areas mentioned in the official tourism speech.
Read MoreMinimalist peace and robust peace
The first conclusion is that minimalist peace is the only possible peace with the State and the political class that we currently have. Robust peace will only be viable with changes in power and the political system, driven by civil society, movements and parties, beginning with parliamentary and presidential elections next year.
Read MorePeace, everyone’s business! Corporate accountability in transitional justice: lessons for Colombia
The report includes a comparative study of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Liberia) that used transitional justice to judge crimes by corporate actors during armed conflicts.
Read MoreThe National Comprehensive Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS) needs more concreteness, a road map and a more global vision for integral rural development
We put forward some recommendations aimed at ensuring the proper implementation of point 4 of the Final Agreement: “Solution to the Problem of Illicit Drugs”, especially in relation to the National Comprehensive Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS).
Read MoreLessons for Colombia from eight countries on corporate responsibility in transitional justice: report
The report includes a comparative study of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Liberia) that used transitional justice to judge crimes by corporate actors during armed conflicts.
Read MoreDejusticia weighs in on the Ministry of Justice´s proposal regarding differentiated penal treatment
We comment the proposed draft law on the Regulation of Differential Criminal Treatment for individuals associated with the cultivation of illicit crops and women linked to small-scale drug trafficking.
Read More“If there is no water for the people, there is no water for the palm”: the ‘peace’ conflicts of Marialabaja
The Montes de María subregion in the Colombian Caribbean has been living for ten years what is now called postconflict: the absence of formal armed actors in the territory and the government’s commitment to guarantee rights and non-repetition.
Read MoreWhere will the 9 million hectares needed for zidres come from?
Before delivering a considerable part of Colombia to private enterprise, the Government must resolve these five issues.
Read MoreAccess to intelligence and counterintelligence archives in the framework of the post-agreement
In this text, we offer options so that transitional justice mechanisms and society at large can have access to intelligence and counterintelligence archives, which relate to the armed conflict in Colombia.
Read MoreIn the country side, life is much harder for women than for men
The progress made in the Peace Agreement on the recognition of the triple discrimination faced by rural women in Colombia cannot be just words and empty promises.
Read MorePeace territories: the construction of the local state in Colombia
This book offers diagnoses and proposals surrounding one key challenge of peace building: carrying out out a large national state-building project on the periphery of the country.
Read MoreThe State seems to negotiate with a dagger under the tablecloth
The drugs section of the peace agreement mentions strategies for the substitution of illicit crops, strengthening the fight against illegal finances and drug trafficking groups, paying attention to consumption and the promotion of an international debate on drug policy. However, it fell short in providing a comprehensive solution for communities associated with coca leaf cultivation.
Read MoreA weak and temporary court does not serve peace
To guarantee a proper normative implementation of the peace accord, we need an independent and very strong Constitutional Court both in the political and in the technical sense.
Read MorePeace for women
The biggest challenge of 2017 is to consolidate peace. The agreement between the Government and the FARC promises to promote comprehensive rural reform, a process of democratic openness, a system that guarantees the rights of victims of armed conflict and some solutions to the problem of illicit drug use. Promises that should materialize with a gender approach, which came to the Agreement thanks to the persistence of the social movement of women and remained in it, despite having been misrepresented during the campaign of the plebiscite.
Read MoreBojayá, the town we left without a voice or a vote
“The paramilitaries enter, two weeks later, the FARC enters, and kills half the town.” This is how Maxima, a black woman in the Committee for the Rights of the Bojayá Victims, summarizes what happened on May 2, 2002.
Read MoreWho should pay more taxes in the post-conflict?
The government has strived to keep discussions on the Peace Accord and tax reform separate: it says that with or without an agreement, reform is needed to fill the huge fiscal gap left by falling oil and other natural resource prices.
Read MoreThe Truth Commission’s Advances and Challenges
What implications does this new agreement reached between the National Government and the FARC-EP at the negotiation table have? Some thoughts from Dejusticia.
Read MoreTransitional Justicie and the Peace Process in Colombia
This article studies the measures that society and the Colombian government should implement to democratically overcome the armed conflict. These measures are both numerous and complex.
Read MoreLet’s Talk about Education
The most important questions and the best answers. A better country in the short or long term, one way or another, will come from reforming education in Colombia
Read MoreCoalition Report UN Resolution 1325 on Peace and Democracy in Colombia
Since 2011, Coalition 1325 has drafted a report on UN Security Council´s Resolution 1325 monitoring the implementation of the Resolution in Colombia. This year, given the peace dialogues between the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP, this report is especially important because Resolution 1325 calls upon signatory states to include women in peace processes and post conflict scenarios, and to guarantee the rights of the women victims of armed conflict.
Read MoreThinking of the Issue of Drugs Alongside the Peace Process
Now that the different peaces and post-conflict scenarios in Colombia are being discussed, it is crucial to include the problem of illicit drug prosecutions in the debate. From what perspectives should we approach this problem so that we don’t make the same mistakes of the past?
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