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9 - Transitional Justice in the Colombian Final Accord

Text, Context, and Implementation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

By
Jason Michael Quinn  and
Madhav Joshi
Edited by
James Meernik ,
Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt  and
Mauricio Uribe-López
James Meernik
Affiliation:
University of North Texas
Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt
Affiliation:
University of North Texas
Mauricio Uribe-López
Affiliation:
EAFIT University (Medelin, Coloumbia)
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Summary

The Colombian Final Accord is an innovative agreement, particularly with respect to the amount of overall content devoted to transitional justice, victims, and the emphasis on subsequent implementation (Herbolzheimer, 2016; Nylander, Sandberg, and Tvedt, 2018). Some of the most contentious issues in the negotiations that produced the accord were related to truth and reconciliation processes, prosecution and sentencing for war crimes, prisoners release, and amnesty, and the armed actors and negotiators showed great interest in learning from other peace processes. The overall end result of these efforts was the reaching of what is almost certainly the most victim-centered comprehensive peace agreement ever negotiated.1

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As War Ends
What Colombia Can Tell Us About the Sustainability of Peace and Transitional Justice
 , pp. 207 - 229
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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