Avoiding amnesty in the age of accountability: Colombia's proposal for alternative sentencing
One of the more conspicuous symptoms of the anti-impunity movement in transitional justice is a growing objection towards the use of amnesty. While international standards are slowly but surely building a legal barricade to prevent amnesty and impunity, states are searching far alternative measures...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=5588420 |
| Source: | Anuario de acción humanitaria y derechos humanos = Yearbook of humanitarian action and human rights, ISSN 1885-298X, Nº 13, 2015, pags. 125-158 |
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One of the more conspicuous symptoms of the anti-impunity movement in transitional justice is a growing objection towards the use of amnesty.
While international standards are slowly but surely building a legal barricade
to prevent amnesty and impunity, states are searching far alternative measures
capable of persuading hostile actors to demobilise. One promising solution to this
is Colombia's proposal far prosecutions accompanied by alternative sentencing
under the Marco Jurídíco de la Paz, which aims to demobilize the guerillas and
end a 50-year conflict. But for this proposal to be a genuine alternative to amnesty
rather than a política! attempt to avoid international legal obligations, it must
satisfy victims' requirements for truth, justice and reparations. This paper examines
the potential use of alternative sentencing as a mechanism of transitional justice
within the scope of the "age of accountability". |
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