Entre vecinos: retos de la justicia transicional a nivel local - el caso de la Sierra de la Macarena, Colombia

Abstract: The current peace process between the Colombian Government and FARC - EP in Havana has rekindled the debate over the limits and scope of transitional justice. Phenomena such as horizontal victimization, result of the indirect participation of civilians in the conflict, poses a number of challenges for the transitional justice model, which is defined at the table; in particular how to proceed when violence has been used among neighbors. This article focuses on this tension and, for that, this presents a description of the boundaries of transitional justice and discusses the contexts of opportunity where the horizontal victimization has taken place in a Colombian region strongly affected by the armed conflict, la Sierra de La Macarena. The article concludes with the formulation of a hypothesis aimed at proposing a possible alternative in order to overcome the horizontal violence in the post conflict:, which is the possible complementarity between transitional mechanisms and the local

Object Details

• Alternative title: Between neighbors: challenges in the local transitional justice - the case of the "La Sierra de la Macarena," Colombia
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Spanisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Revista El Agora USB ; 15 (2015) 2 ; 479-494

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik ; Recht

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2015
• Creator: Marín González, Keren

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-461094
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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