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1. Beyond the Binary: Securing Peace and Promoting Justice after Conflict

Author:
Nelson Camilo Sánchez, Rodrigo Uprimny, Howard Varney, Michael Schwarz, Tatiana Rincón-Covelli, Claudio Nash, Tara Van Ho, and Oscar Parra
Publication Date:
01-2019
Content Type:
Special Report
Institution:
Dejusticia
Abstract:
The main objective of Beyond the Binary is to place on record the need to formulate answers to the question of the role that criminal action and punishment should play in negotiated political transitions from war to peace. Discussions on the meaning and scope of concepts such as justice, accountability, and victim satisfaction continue to be fervent topics in specialized circles of what is now known as “the transitional justice field,” and in societies suffering from mass violence. Instead of solving the practical and theoretical dilemmas of these interpretative disputes, the experience and knowledge accumulated over the more than three decades that this field has been in existence have served only to deepen the debates and to adapt more of these discussions to new and constantly-changing scenarios and contexts.
Topic:
Conflict Resolution, Conflict Prevention, Peacekeeping, Conflict, and Peace
Political Geography:
Latin America and Global Focus

2. Addressing Inequality from a Human Rights Perspective: Social and Economic Justice in the Global South

Author:
César Rodríguez Garavito
Publication Date:
08-2019
Content Type:
Special Report
Institution:
Dejusticia
Abstract:
This book points to an emerging set of ideas and practices being developed by activists, scholars, and courts from a range of countries that reveals the potential of human rights to resolve other radical injustices and to build more robust civil society movements against inequality and deregulation. Numerous countries around the globe are witnessing a similar experience in their modern political contexts: democratic tools and human rights instruments—which have facilitated undeniable improvements in the lives of millions—are proving largely insufficient for preventing extreme forms of exclusion. In other words, while human rights have played a fundamental role in highlighting inequalities based on factors such as gender and ethnic and racial identity, they have coexisted alongside persistent socioeconomic injustices and the rise of authoritarian populist governments that are jeopardizing human rights institutions and principles worldwide. Against this panorama, some are arguing that the human rights movement is incapable of warding off social injustice, while others are calling for a separation of the human rights and social movements. This book offers a third way: it points to an emerging set of ideas and practices being developed by activists, scholars, and courts from a range of countries that reveals the potential of human rights to resolve other radical injustices and to build more robust civil society movements against inequality and deregulation.
Topic:
Gender Issues, Human Rights, Race, Social Movement, Political Activism, and Inequality
Political Geography:
Latin America

3. Participation in Transitional Justice Measures

Author:
María Paula Saffon and Viviana Tacha
Publication Date:
11-2019
Content Type:
Special Report
Institution:
Dejusticia
Abstract:
This book offers a comparative and critic study about the experiences of participation in the transitional justice. From a detailed study of 35 experiences of transitional justice corresponding to 20 countries, the document explores the different stages who have allowed to the victims and the civil society take part in the promotion, adoption and implementation of truth, justice, reparations and no repetition guarantees steps.
Topic:
Conflict Resolution, Conflict Prevention, Transitional Justice, and Justice
Political Geography:
Latin America

4. Summary of the CEDD regional report

Author:
Colectivo de Estudios de Drogas y Derecho (CEDD)
Publication Date:
01-2019
Content Type:
Special Report
Institution:
Dejusticia
Abstract:
This publication is based on the Cannabis de Latinoamérica: la ola verde y los restos hacia la regulación report, and has the objective of analyzing the way punitive laws of drugs change disproportionately users, farmers and minor sellers of cannabis in the Americas, by sources of statistics information, official pieces of information and participants of the cannabis production process.
Topic:
Criminal Justice, Drugs, and Public Health
Political Geography:
Latin America