Publicado por un grupo de congresistas colombianos el 4 de agosto de 2020.
A data-filled report on the current status of implementation of the FARC peace accord, compiled by a group of pro-peace members of Colombia’s Congress. (link at juanitaenelcongreso.com)
August 4, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 28 de julio de 2020.
A former guerrilla recounts the FARC’s history of recruiting minors.
July 28, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 26 de julio de 2020.
The transitional justice system has moved forward on its investigation of one of the worst massacres in the history of the conflict, the 2000 paramilitary attack on the people of El Salado, Bolivar.
July 26, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 23 de julio de 2020.
Maximum FARC party leader Rodrigo Londoño talks about transitional justice and the FARC’s past human rights crimes, including forced child recruitment, which the guerrillas are denying took place.
July 23, 2020
Outlines the current challenges of Colombia’s peace process, across the board, and makes recommendations for U.S. policy.
July 23, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 21 de julio de 2020.
Legislative proposals seek to weaken the JEP and the Truth Commission.
July 21, 2020
Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 13 de julio de 2020.
An infographic presenting the transitional justice system’s activities since COVID-19 measures went into effect in March 2020.
July 13, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 13 de julio de 2020.
An investigation into unscrupulous social media campaigns against the post-conflict transitional justice system.
July 13, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador el 7 de julio de 2020.
An investigation into social media campaigns, relying heavily on bots, aimed at discrediting the post-conflict transitional justice system.
July 7, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 30 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of how best to ensure victims’ participation in transitional justice.
June 30, 2020
Publicado por la Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas el 30 de junio de 2020.
An update on the transitional justice system’s work in Casanare department.
June 30, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 25 de junio de 2020.
Explaining the participation of civilian third parties accused of war crimes in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
June 25, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 22 de junio de 2020.
Relatives of people kidnapped by the FARC 20 years ago learn, through the transitional justice system, what happened to their loved ones.
June 22, 2020
Publicado por la Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas el 12 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of the work of the Unit for the Search for Disappeared Persons.
June 12, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 4 de junio de 2020.
Kidnap victims object strongly to FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño, in a JEP video, referring to kidnappings as “retentions.”
June 4, 2020
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) rejects former top paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso’s petition to participate in the FARC peace accords’ transitional justice system as a “third party.” As a paramilitary leader, Mancuso—who was extradited to the United States in 2008 and imprisoned for drug trafficking, but who completed his sentence in early 2020—falls within the “Justice and Peace” transitional justice system set up for the paramilitaries’ post-2006 demobilization. The JEP denies that Mancuso, one of the most senior leaders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), could possibly have qualified as an outside supporter of paramilitaries during the pre-AUC era (late 1980s and early 1990s).
June 4, 2020
Published by the Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law on June 2, 2020.
Finds that the process of selecting justices for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace was a model of inclusiveness.
June 2, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador el 17 de mayo de 2020.
The former maximum leader of the AUC paramilitaries, extradited to the United States in 2008, has completed his U.S. prison term and may soon return to Colombia.
May 17, 2020
Citing health and COVID-19 concerns, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) grants conditional release from prison to retired Gen. Jesús Armando Arias Cabrales, who led the Army’s Bogotá-based 13th Brigade during the 1985 M-19 guerrilla takeover of, and subsequent military assault on, the Palace of Justice in the city’s center. Gen. Arias Cabrales had been jailed for the torture and disappearance of civilians during that operation.
May 15, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 8 de mayo de 2020.
A discussion of peace accord implementation amid the COVID-19 crisis, with Senator Iván Cepeda; Marco Romero of CODHES; Elena Ambrossi, a former member of the government peace negotiation team; Rodrigo Uprimny of DeJusticia; Representative Juanita Goebertus; Saúl Franco of the Truth Commission; and Representative Feliciano Valencia.
May 8, 2020
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) announces that it is taking voluntary testimonies from accused perpetrators via internet, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 6, 2020
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) decides to study whether to order collective protection measures for former FARC members and former security force personnel who are participating in transitional justice. It cites threats against ex-military defendants, and the killings of at least 193 former FARC members through March.
May 4, 2020
Citing their vulnerability to COVID-19 while imprisoned, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) orders house arrest for 25 people accused of committing war crimes while serving in the security forces. On April 22, the JEP’s Legal Situations Chamber denied release to two former senior officers, Colonels Joaquín Correa López y Jorge Eliécer Plazas Acevedo, both over 60 years old. The JEP mandated that they be granted humanitarian protective measures while detained.
April 30, 2020
Raises concerns about persistent impunity for human rights violations committed by state actors, and calls on the International Criminal Court to remain vigilant.
April 26, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador el 23 de abril de 2020.
An academic conversation about the balance between reconciliation and justice in Colombia’s post-conflict transitional justice system.
April 23, 2020
