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Colombia’s response to the country’s drug problem has been based on the repression of the weakest links in the drug chain—namely consumers and small farmers—which has led to disproportionate rates of imprisonment and has involved a heavy focus on forced crop eradication. Not only has such an approach failed to effectively control the cocaine market, but it has also unleashed harmful side effects in terms of security, social development, and human rights as they concern communities in coca-growing areas. Moreover, although scholars and practitioners have analyzed Colombia’s drug problem from a variety of perspectives, these efforts have tended to overlook women’s experiences. This...
This Research Handbook examines the punishment of atrocity crime and presents a wide-ranging critique of post-conviction law, policy and practice. With a team of expert contributing authors, R—is’n Mulgrew and Mikkel Jarle Christensen provide insights into the impact and implications of punishment models, strategies and frameworks.
Through two Colombian case studies, Sanne Weber identifies the ways in which conflict experiences are defined by structures of gender inequality, and how these could be transformed in the post-conflict context. The author reveals that current, apparently gender-sensitive, transitional justice (TJ) and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) laws and policies ultimately undermine rather than transform gender equality and, consequently, weaken the chances of achieving holistic and durable peace. To overcome this, Weber offers an innovative approach to TJ and DDR that places gendered citizenship as both the starting point and the continued driving force of post-conflict reconstruction.
On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a revised peace accord that marked a political end to over a half-century of war. Feel the Grass Grow traces the far less visible aspects of moving from war to peace: the decades of campesino struggle to defend life, land, and territory prior to the national accord, as well as campesino social leaders' engagement with the challenges of the state's post-accord reconstruction efforts. In the words of the campesino organizers, "peace is not signed, peace is built." Drawing on nearly a decade of extensive ethnographic and participatory research, Angela Jill Lederach advances a theory of "slow pea...
War devastates the lives of those who are caught up in it. For thousands of years, reparations have been used to secure the end of war and alleviate its deleterious consequences. More recently, human rights law has established that victims have a right to reparations. Yet, in the face of conflicts that last for decades with millions of victims, how feasible are reparations? And what are the obstacles to delivering them? Using interviews with hundreds of victims, ex-combatants, government officials, and civil society actors from six post-conflict countries, Reparations and War examines the history, theoretical justifications, and practical challenges of implementing reparations after war. It examines the role of non-state armed groups in making reparations, the role of victim mobilisation, the evolving use of reparations, and the political instrumentalization of redress. Luke Moffett offers a measured and honest account of what reparations can and cannot do. This book sheds new light on how reparations can be politically manipulated, or used to reward those loyal to the State, rather than to achieve justice for the victims who suffer.
Es un gusto presentar a la comunidad académica este nuevo libro de investigación que recoge los mejores trabajos de investigación discutidos en el tercer Congreso de Derecho Internacional, organizado anualmente por el Grupo de Investigación en Derecho Internacional de la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad del Rosario y sus organizaciones aliadas. En esta obra participaron treinta y cuatro autores que realizaron veinticinco contribuciones sobre temas variados que giran alrededor de cinco grandes temas del derecho internacional (i. derecho internacional público, ii. derechos humanos, derecho internacional humanitario y medio ambiente, iii. conflicto armado interno y justicia tra...
Providing a refreshing take on transitional justice, this second edition Research Handbook brings together an expanse of scholarly expertise to reconsider how societies deal with gross human rights violations, structural injustices and mass violence. Contextualised by historical developments, it covers a diverse range of concepts, actors and mechanisms of transitional justice, while shedding light on new and emerging areas in the field.
A pesar de un recorte temprano de sus competencias, la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz sigue siendo una apuesta novedosa en el mundo para afrontar la responsabilidad corporativa por atrocidades del pasado. Su modelo preminentemente restaurativo con componentes retributivos presenta una alternativa a las distintas aproximaciones que se han hecho en el mundo a la rendición de cuentas de actores económicos y, vale aclarar, a las que se han intentado en Colombia también. Uno de los componentes esenciales del modelo es el compromiso que adquieren los comparecientes, incluidos los actores económicos, de contribuir a la reparación de las víctimas y la restauración del daño para recibir u...
Cerca de ocho millones de personas han salido de Venezuela en los últimos ocho años a causa de la emergencia humanitaria compleja por la que atraviesa este país y el 37% de esta población se encuentra en Colombia, lo que lo convierte en el principal país receptor. Las personas migrantes llegan a Colombia con una serie de necesidades básicas insatisfechas relacionadas con sus derechos fundamentales, como la salud, la alimentación y la educación, y una vez en Colombia siguen enfrentando barreras para que se les garanticen sus derechos. Estas barreras se agravan en el caso de las personas que han tenido que migrar informalmente y que no pueden acceder a un estatus migratorio regular y e...
La mala calidad del aire es un problema ambiental y de salud pública de urgente atención por parte de los estados, quienes han adquirido compromisos internacionales que los obliga a adoptar medidas preventivas, regulatorias y de control. En Colombia existen debilidades en el monitoreo del aire, así como en la institucionalidad que debe proteger los derechos de la ciudadanía. Particularmente Bogotá, una de las ciudades que mayor polución tiene, se presenta como un caso de estudio para intercomparar datos del sistema oficial de medición de la calidad del aire y los sensores de bajo costo como apuesta para complementar y reforzar la línea base de datos públicos, así como para involucrar a la ciudadanía en la producción de ciencia