Falsehoods about our recent book
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Recently, Dejusticia received strong criticism for the publication of our Increasing Accountability report. In this column, I respond and discuss the complexities of the role of businesses during the armed conflict.
Read more What justice reforms?
By Carolina Villadiego Burbano |
Several presidential candidates propose a justice reform; some have even said that they will hold a Constituent Assembly to achieve it. But beyond that, the candidates could discuss policies that would strengthen access to justice and the system's legitimacy.
Read more Skepticism about pessimism
By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019) |
The so-called “negativity bias” helped humans survive as a species, but today makes us excessively pessimistic. We must counteract the pessimistic biases and professionals that receive excessive attention and credit.
Read more This is what we lose when a social leader is attacked
By Carolina Gutiérrez Torres |
It's time to stop talking about leaders who are killed or threatened. It is entire communities who are affected when leaders are no longer present. Inevitably, this vulnerability opens the door for armed actors to settle in and take control of the territory.
Read more In Search of Lost Treasures: Indigenous Peoples and Seized Culture
By Jesús Medina |
Global South countries have an obligation to set pathways to find lost treasures in museums and private collections around the world. Therefore, it is essential that indigenous peoples are taken into account when determining the use and destination of the cultural material that has been expatriated for centuries.
Read more Drawing lessons from the Colombian elections
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The recent elections taught us that previous reforms have reduced a major problem we had in the late 1990s: extreme political fragmentation.
Read more Praise for the average citizen
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In the middle of my task as a voting jury, the following imaginary world occurred to me: what would happen if, instead of selecting the elected politicians to Congress that day, we selected a group of voting juries chosen by lottery?
Read more Litigation, science, and global warming
By César Rodríguez Garavito (Se retiró en 2019) |
With the “science of attribution,” the Supreme Court of Justice has in its hands the strongest scientific basis by which to decide the lawsuit brought by 25 young people in the coming days.
Con la “ciencia de la atribución” la Corte Suprema de Justicia tendrá en sus manos las bases científicas más sólidas para decidir la tutela de los 25 jóvenes en los próximos días.
Read more In this town, will something serious happen?
By Ana María Ramírez |
¿Por qué es más fácil sembrar miedo en los corazones que esperanza? Nos pasó en el plebiscito, nos pasó en la ola verde. No porque los que queremos un país mejor no seamos la mayoría, sino porque los otros son más efectivos con su ruido ensordecedor.
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