The Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace: When victims meet their aggressors

Prof Sharon Weill and the Justice lab are happy to invite you to an open lecture on Transitional Justice in Colombia addressing the challenges of restorative justice in the context of mass crimes. 

In 2016, Colombia ended 50 years of war with FARC with an innovative peace deal that created a novel court at its center. The lecture looks at that court and the main challenges that different legal actors face: how facts are prioritized, which participants are included, how procedure is developed, applied, and evolves. Particular attention is given to the ongoing meetings and negotiations between victims and perpetrators, which are expected to produce proposals for the courts in the form of alternative remedies to imprisonment.