The article offers a comparative study of the process of transitional justice as adopted by various countries. By exploring the unique contexts, dilemmas, and pardoning systems, the study examines the methods of applying transitional justice. Finally, the author advocates for Colombia to embrace transitional model founded on responsible pardoning and democratic legitimacy.

The study explores the benefits and drawbacks of applying the framework of restorative justice as the dominant paradigm in order to address problems presented by transitional justice in Colombia. The investigation is timely as the idea that transitional processes should be founded on restorative justice is becoming increasingly popular. By exploring the original concepts of the two branches of justice, the author analyzes several complementary characteristics between the two and also analyzes the important tensions that exist between them. The findings highlights limitations that exist in the restorative justice approach as when applied to a transitional time. Ultimately, the author concludes that the processes of transitional justice, especially those in Colombia, should contain punishment for those responsible for serious human rights violations, and therefore, only they should only contemplate using restorative justice in limited situations.

The text analyzes the evolution of the block of constitutionality in Colombia and it evaluates comparative rights and shows the importance of incorporating it into the national code of human rights standards. After explaining the view of this figure, the text describes its evolution in the Colombian constitutional jurisprudence and analyzes the main conceptual and legal issues that still pose problems, proposing doctrinal solutions that favor application by national judges of the international law of the human rights.

The text synthesizes the reach of the block of constitutionality in Colombia, including that permit of the internal application of international human rights law. After proposing a doctrinal systematization of the reach of this figure, the text samples some of Colombia’s penal applications.

The article shows the relationship between the practice of the constitutional interpretation and the problems of the fundamentalism of universality of human rights. The article does a systematic study of Colombian, German, and American constitutional jurisprudence that has resolved the tensions between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of information. It also samples different solutions to the tensions of constitutional democracy. The article maintains that the practical harmonization of those constitutional tensions is a possible to reach through dialogue, a certain universality of human rights and to understand them there needs to be a respect for the diversity of perspectives.

The law of electoral guarantees creates extensive opportunities for the growth and strengthening of the democratic left wing in Colombia.