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cite>Date: Mon, 23 Oct
2006 13:01:05 -0400<br>
Reply-To: LAS <las@econs.umass.edu><br>
Sender: Latin American Studies <LASC-L@LISTSERV.AMHERST.EDU><br>
From: LAS <las@econs.umass.edu></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: [LASC-L] [Events-las] CLACLS
Occasional Lecture- Forgive and Forget? The Transitional Justice
Colombian Experience</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>To: LASC-L@LISTSERV.AMHERST.EDU<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Century Gothic"
size="-1">CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN AND LATINO STUDIES<br>
<font color="#000000">UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
AMHERST</font></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Century Gothic" size="-5" color="#990000">Occasional Lecture<br>
</font><font face="Century Gothic" size="-8" color="#990000">Fall
2006</font><br>
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<font face="Century Gothic" size="+3" color="#990000"><i>Forgive and
Forget? <br>
The Transitional Justice Colombian Experience</i></font><font
face="Century Gothic" size="+2" color="#990000"><i><br>
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<font face="Century Gothic" size="+2" color="#990000"> Farid
Samir Benavides Vanegas</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Century Gothic" size="+3" color="#990000">Profesor
Auxiliar</font><font face="Century Gothic" size="+1"
color="#990000"><br>
</font><font face="Century Gothic" size="+3" color="#990000">Facultad
de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas y Sociales<br>
Universidad Nacional de Colombia<br>
</font><a href="mailto:fsbenavidesv@unal.edu.co"><font
face="Century Gothic" size="+2"
color="#990000">fsbenavidesv@unal.edu.co</font></a><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Century Gothic">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<br>
intervening in the conflict. As a result, Colombian Congress
passed the so-called Law of Justice and Peace that grants demobilized
paramilitaries a<br>
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<br>
left the victims in the oblivion and has given paramilitaries too many
privileges against international standards. Language of Truth
and<br>
Reconciliation Commissions and of post-conflict justice has been used
by all sectors in Colombia, despite the fact that the Colombian
experience is very<br>
different from the Argentinean, Guatemalan or South African ones.
In this presentation I want to provide a historical overview of the
Colombian<br>
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<br>
of the current peace process and its
possibilities.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Century Gothic" size="+3" color="#990000">Thursday, October
26<br>
Thompson 519, 4pm</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Century Gothic" size="-3" color="#990000">For more information
contact Tamia Deza at</font> <a
href="mailto:las@econs.umass.edu"><font face="Century Gothic"
size="-3" color="#990000">las@econs.umass.edu</font></a><font
face="Century Gothic" size="-3" color="#990000"> (413)
545-4648</font><br>
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