Issue-Transitional Justice
Without judicial tricks
Democracy demands that we accept the results of ballot boxes, even when we don’t agree with them.
Read MoreDemocracy for peace
The analyses on the plebiscite have focused on explaining where and why the NO won. They have ignored the greatest worry: that the majority of voters did not vote
Read MoreSo close and yet so fragile
The current situation in the country is dramatic: the pacific solution to our armed conflict is very close…and yet so fragile.
Read MoreMarching for a wide bloc for peace
The massive march last Wednesday confirms that a wide bloc for peace is consolidating: students, indigenous people, farmers and citizens of all ages that converge on an expedited and reached by concesus peace, whether they voted on October 2nd or they voted in favor or against the accords.
Read MoreThe hidden face of abstention
What is wrong in a democracy where a clear majority stays at home on the day of the most important vote of a generation?
Read MoreClarifications for peace
If the results of the plebiscite had been the opposite and the YES had
won by a narrow margin, the implementation of the accord would have been
politically very difficult in any case because we would have a similar
political situation to the one today: a technical tie between the YES and the
NO, mixed with a great rate of abstention and a great geographic and social
diversity in voting.
Elites, bases and peace
The plebiscite breaks the political chess in the country.
Read MoreA broad front for peace
There are two political roads towards a revision of the peace accords. One is a new National Front that, like in 1957, is a pact behind closed doors between two factions of the political class (those supporting Santos and those supporting Uribe), this time complimented by an accord with the FARC.
Read MoreWhy Same-Sex Adoption Should Not Be Put to Vote
The current binary in Colombia presents an opportunity to ask when populations should vote on specific policies.
Read MoreWithout a doubt
A day before the plebiscite and knowing that several of us are tired of hearing and reading about peace, I make a last call to those who are thinking about abstaining from voting on the peace accords.
Read MoreFarc’s option is justice
Though it seems counterintuitive, the best available political strategy for Farc is to defend a peace agreement that includes justice measures.
Read MoreThe indecision that mines restitution
While the agrarian policies allow the land concentration to continue, the efforts of achieving restitution will be insignificant and they can be counterproductive.
Read MorePeace dialogues and drugs: possibilities in between and beyond prohibition
Las negociaciones del gobierno con las FARC en La Habana abren un espacio para nada despreciable para limitar el impacto negativo del narcotráfico sobre la violencia y la democracia en Colombia, por lo que conviene intentar desarrollar ideas que orienten los debates en este campo. El propósito de este artículo es brindar algunas herramientas teóricas…
Read MoreA peace message from South Africa
Prison is not the most direct path toward peace.
Read MoreMistaken interpretations or a misleading message?
About the press releases issued by the Constitutional Court on the decision about the Legal Framework of Peace.
Read MoreThe statutory law of the peace referendum would be constitutional
A warning
In this article we do not refer to the eventual content of the referendum, in other words, the specific proposal that would be submitted to consideration of citizens regarding the peace process. Until now, the proposals that have circulated in media are very general and do not go beyond a simple speculation.
Read MoreRatification: the South African example
Is it possible to overcome the existing polarization over the ratification of an eventual peace agreement? FARC insists on a constitutional assembly, while the government is radically opposed to this option.
Read MoreConflict, protests and peace
Today we are experiencing two concurrent events. First, we are witnessing the negotiations with the guerillas, which have a good possibility of success. Second, we are living through a time of very intense social unrest, as the farmers’ strike demonstrated. ¿How do we interpret the simultaneity of these processes?
Read MorePeace framework: pending discussion about prison
The ruling of the Constitutional Court supports the dialogues, however it is not a free pass to get out of prison.
Read MoreThe Attorney General of the International Criminal Court and the decision on the legal peace framework
Are the communications, sent by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to the Constitutional Court, really “letter bombs” against the constitutionality of the Legal Framework for Peace?
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