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