Many would call war criminals not going to jail impunity, following common retributive justice and logic. The alternative that will be used in Colombia’s transitional justice system, restorative justice, is already…
Colombia’s peace process has entered a major crisis after the country’s Constitutional Court partially rewound its approval. FARC guerrillas have declared a strike, and urged immediate action from President Juan Manuel Santos. The…
The UN Security Council heads that visited Colombia early this month voiced their satisfaction with the ongoing peace process, but stressed its concern over increases in violence in former guerrilla territories. The council met on…
A prominent member of a dissident group of FARC guerrillas was killed in an attempted arrest on Monday, according to the defense minister. Mauricio de Jesus Medina, aka “Morrudo,” died in…
The disarmament of the FARC is virtually impossible to be finished before the May 31 deadline, partly because the sheer volume of arms surprised even the leadership of the demobilizing…
Despite major challenges and the kidnapping of a United Nations employee, the UN Security Council “unanimously and solidly” continues to support Colombia’s peace process. Security Council chairman Elbio Roselli of Uruguay couldn’t…
Colombia’s defense minister on Wednesday accused demobilizing FARC guerrillas of having surrendered coordinates of only two of the 900 weapon caches the rebels claim to have reported. The minister did so weeks after…
The United Nations’ Security Council will visit Colombia next week to be informed on the country’s ongoing peace process and consider a three-year extension of its monitoring mandate. The council has actively monitored the…
Two demobilized FARC member have been assassinated in southwest Colombia in the past 10 days, sparking fears of a repetition of the mass killing of leftists that cost thousands of lives after a 1985 peace…