Seminar: Transitional Justice and the New Perpetrators and Subjects of Rights - Insights from Colombia

真人线上娱乐 are pleased to invite you to a seminar on transitional justice, focusing on the innovations in Colombia's transitional justice system. The Colombian 2016 peace agreement is often hailed as one of the most comprehensive transitional justice processes ever designed, placing Colombia at the forefront of the field. Formed by the peace agreement and earlier transitional justice laws, the system is built on the pillars of criminal justice, truth, reparations, and guarantees of non-recurrence. The mechanisms are both reconciliatory and reparatory in nature and serve as historical examples of balancing anti-impunity demands with pragmatic amnesties and extensive truth and memory work. Frequently referred to as a laboratory and reference point for transitional justice, Colombia is increasingly recognized as a global model for peace and justice.

Despite these achievements and praise from human rights organizations and international bodies like the UN and the ICC, Colombia faces several challenges. There are continued violence against and murder of human rights defenders and peace signatories, fading support for justice institutions, and a lack of faith in the peace agreement¡¯s implementation. 

Additionally, new obstacles arise from innovations in justice procedures, such as the recognition of the rights of nature and efforts to address third parties, including economic actors, as perpetrators and victims of the conflict. These new actors present novel challenges, reflecting broader debates about the root causes of conflict and environmental justice. This will we discussed in the context of the international informal standardization of transitional justice, which has turned the 'model' into a Global Blueprint for dealing with past atrocities.

Join us to explore and learn from Colombia's pioneering efforts in this critical field.

Program

13:00 真人线上娱乐lcome and introduction, Line Engbo Gissel

13:15 Experiences from working in the Truth Commission, Daniel Mar¨ªn-L¨®pez

13:45 Q&A

14:15 New rights subjects: Nature and ethnic territories, Daniel Mar¨ªn-L¨®pez and Line Jakobsen

14:35 Comments from the audience

14:45 Closure

There will be coffee, tea and snacks.

Please share the invitation widely in your network. The event is organized as part of the DFF project ¡°The Standardisation of Transitional Justice: Consolidation, Innovation and Politics¡±. 

Daniel Mar¨ªn-L¨®pez is co-creator of Enramada Collective and a transdisciplinary PhD researcher in Human and Social Sciences at the National University of Colombia. His research focuses on the interplay between corporate accountability, the war-to-peace transition, and the political economy of armed conflict. He also lectures on Human Rights, Development, and Business at Universidad de los Andes. He was a Fellow at Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, an Expert Advisor on corporate complicity at the Colombian Truth Commission, a Principal 真人线上娱乐 at Dejusticia, and a Legal Aid for the ¡°Transitional Justice in Colombia - ProFis¡± program of the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ). He studied Political Science (B.A.) and Law (LL.B.) at Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) and was an International Human Rights Fellow at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he earned an LL.M (honors).