Latin America & Caribbean / Comment
The Justice and Peace Law: will it bring true peace?
13/10/2005 By Rafael Pardo
The Law, passed by Congress and sanctioned by Government, will not bring true peace to Colombia.
It will allow self-defence leaders to receive judicial benefits and to hand over some of the armed structures they have, but it ignores a fundamental principle: the truth. Without truth, there is neither justice nor reparation.
There is no clarification of acts, vital for the application of law to have all the guarantees.
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Keywords
Civil society Colombia Conflict resolution Peace processRelated publications
- Colombia: more doubts than certainties
- Spanish Policy towards Colombia's peace strategies: challenges posed by the justice and peace law
Bio author: Rafael Pardo
Economist from the Universidad de los Andes, and one of the first students of the Specialization on Urban and Regional Planning at the Institute of Social Studies of the Hague.
