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Hurricane Katrina: A natural disaster or a political misery?
Rodrigo Uprimny, director of Dejusticia, emphasizes how Hurricane Katrina stripped many of the inequities of the current American politics.
Read MoreProfession of Rulers
A good part of the people today that defend a society run by engineers and economists have in mind the conservation of a tradition society organized divided by the split in privileges. Written by Mauricio García.
Read MoreLittle Lying Pastors
César Rodríguez criticizes the proposal of the Anif to eliminate the business contribution of compensation boxes, the Seine and Family Welfare.
Read MoreScience with a Conscience?
Sixty years after Hiroshima, Rodrigo Uprimny, Director of DJS and professor at the National University in Colombia, recalls the dangers of scientific development with an ethical conscience.
Read MoreTwenty women and their influence on Feminism
Helena Alvíar analyzes feminism since the controversial appointment of 20 women as local mayors in Bogotá.
Read More“The law of Justice and Peace”: Proceedings of Truth?
The truth is the basis of a process of respectful and lasting peace of victim’s rights, without truth it is not known who to punish or who to repair. Without truth it is difficult to set forth the mechanisms that can impede the reoccurrence of such atrocious conduct.
Read MoreThe truth of the law of justice and peace
Rodrigo Uprimny thinks that it is unfortunate that the law of justice and peace does not establish appropriate legal media to reach the truth.
Read MoreOn truth and other devils
Danilo Rojas explains why the right of truth remains outside the Law of Justice and Peace and he informs about its unlucky consequences.
Read MoreDimensions of Transitional Justice in Colombia: building bridges among the legal, the political, and the psychosocial
In this article, the authors defend a thesis that a consideration of the fluid dialogue between legal, political, and psychosocial dimensions of society is of fundamental importance to the topic of transitional justice. Although there are no psychosocial experts on transitional justice, the authors contend there is a considerable dissociation among the discussed dimensions that is problematic for exploration and practical implementations of transitional justice in Colombia.
Read MoreToward a Democratic Conception of Reconciliation
This research focuses on the significance of the word reconciliation. It questions what implications it has in contexts of armed conflict, generalized violence, violations of human rights and impunity from the countryside to the cities of Colombia. Facing the difficult realities of reconciliation, the authors explore what is needed to have durable peace rise from a time of profound interpersonal conflict characterized by denial of the other, aggressive behavior and violence.
The article suggests that reconciliation is what is needed for there to be a lasting peace, which was existed before there were enemies and deep interpersonal conflicts, negation or lack of recognition of the others and the constant use of aggression and violence.
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