Abstract

MELAMED V., Janiel David. TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: THE KEY TO A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION TO THE ARMED CONFLICT IN COLOMBIA. rev.relac.int.estrateg.segur. [online]. 2017, vol.12, n.1, pp.185-206. ISSN 1909-3063.  https://doi.org/10.18359/ries.2469.

The necessity of rebuilding societies affected by the cruel realities of war has caused that the concept of transitional justice has evolved into an utterly key and unavoidable referent. Such effort strives to facilitate the transition from war scenarios to contexts of peace, democratic restoration, and respect for human rights. Currently, Colombia is developing new mechanisms of transitional justice that have consolidated as necessary instruments for peace construction in the country, and without them an arranged solution to the internal armed conflict cannot be visualized. The fundamental objectives of this article are to highlight the appropriateness of resorting to negotiation mechanisms in order to put an end to the Colombian armed conflict, to present a conceptual delimitation of transitional justice, to determine the existence (or not) of a single model for transitional justice whose success could be guaranteed, and to, finally, offer a critical analysis of diverse dilemmas between forgiveness and punishment arising from it.

Keywords : Armed conflict; Colombia; Transitional justice; demobilization; disarm; re-integration.

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