[Hamp-law] Fwd: [LASC-L] [Events-las] CLACLS Occasional Lecture- Forgive and Forget? The Transitional Justice Colombian Experience

[Flavio Risech]

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>Date:         Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:01:05 -0400
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>Lecture- Forgive and Forget? The Transitional 
>Justice Colombian Experience
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>CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN AND LATINO STUDIES
>UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST
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>Occasional Lecture
>Fall 2006
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>
>
>Forgive and Forget? 
>The Transitional Justice Colombian Experience
>
>
>   Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas
>Profesor Auxiliar
>Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas y Sociales
>Universidad Nacional de Colombia
><mailto:fsbenavidesv at unal.edu.co>fsbenavidesv at unal.edu.co
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>In 2004, Alvaro Uribe's administration started 
>peace talks with the Autodefensas Unidas de 
>Colombia AUC to end the war with one of the 
>parties
>intervening in the conflict.  As a result, 
>Colombian Congress passed the so-called Law of 
>Justice and Peace that grants demobilized 
>paramilitaries a
>treatment of privilege as a reward for the 
>willingness to give up their fight.  However, 
>critics of the peace process have shown that 
>this process has
>left the victims in the oblivion and has given 
>paramilitaries too many privileges against 
>international standards.  Language of Truth and
>Reconciliation Commissions and of post-conflict 
>justice has been used by all sectors in 
>Colombia, despite the fact that the Colombian 
>experience is very
>different from the Argentinean, Guatemalan or 
>South African ones.  In this presentation I want 
>to provide a historical overview of the Colombian
>conflict and the ways different administrations 
>have dealt with it and how they have searched 
>for peace.  In the second part, I will analyze 
>the limits
>of the current peace process and its possibilities.
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>
>Thursday, October 26
>Thompson 519, 4pm
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>For more information contact Tamia Deza at 
><mailto:las at econs.umass.edu>las at econs.umass.edu 
>(413) 545-4648
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