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JEP: a risky deal

All our news articles and expert analyses on the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP in Spanish). This is the judicial component of the transitional justice process in Colombia. It is based on a "legal compromise" that basically says: if you accept responsibility, if you tell the truth, if you express remorse and undertake to make reparation, you will not be imprisoned. It's a risky deal. And it's controversial. Justice Info deciphers all the news from this atypical court and provides reliable, accurate and balanced information.

JEP and Transitional Justice in Colombia. Photo: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla fighters prepare to be demobilized following the signing of the peace agreement.
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Colombia: Going back to the original balance of justice

There is a crucial aspect of Colombia’s transitional justice model that is worrying: the current inability of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to offer legal security to those who participated in the conflict, including in human rights violations, and have not been identified as among the most responsible. And making sure they also contribute […]
By Paola Molano-Ayala (for Justice Info)
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Trial for the recruitment of child soldiers in Colombia. Photo: Judge Lily Rueda of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) announces the indictment of former FARC leaders.

FARC leadership accused of war crimes over child soldiers

Trial of Colonel Mejía before the JEP in Colombia.

Colombia’s first transitional justice adversarial trial opens

Will the Drummond case be referred to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP) in Colombia? Photo: Construction machinery at work in a coal mine.

The Drummond case, a corporate litmus test for Colombia’s transitional justice

Major Gustavo Soto Bracamonte and Colonel Gabriel de Jesús Rincón, both indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, plant a black sage sapling at the launch of the environmental restorative pilot project near Bogotá, Colombia.

Colombia’s JEP unveils alternative sanctions but remains silent on punishment

In Colombia, how will the JEP apply its commitments on sanctions? Photo: FARC officials at the signing of part of the peace agreement in December 2015 in Cuba.

Sanctions in Colombia’s justice process: How to get it right

A senior jurist from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) listens to a victim in Colombia.

The original internal sin of Colombia’s JEP

In Colombia, an Awá indigenous leader leads a ceremony prior to a hearing before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)

Colombia's Awá Indians, closer to justice but plagued by violence

Alvaro Leyva, Colombia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, is enigmatically opposed to certain transitional justice mechanisms in Colombia.

Colombia: a minister's enigmatic attacks on transitional justice

Motoya faces JEP justice - General Mario Montoya reviews soldiers in Colombia

War in the time of General Montoya

The truth about a disinformation campaign against the transitional justice process in Colombia. Former military officials confess before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).

Colombia: unburying of a political smear against transitional justice

Luis Fernando Almario accused by JEP in Colombia - Funeral of Diego Turbay (politician) over whom Almario is suspected of persecution.

Colombia: Special tribunal indicts first prominent politician

Environmental justice in Colombia - High mountain páramo ecosystems under threat (Cumbal, Nariño).

Colombia's transitional justice cannot agree on how to prosecute environmental crimes

Indigenous peoples have been victims of FARC violence in Colombia

Colombia: new FARC indictment puts spotlight on indigenous and Afro victims

A man (Domingo Navarro) speaks into a microphone during a hearing of the Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) in Colombia.

How Colombia’s JEP earns the respect of sceptical victims

President Iván Duque stands in front of Truth Commission chairman father Francisco de Roux. They exchange a document (defence sector's truth report) under the gaze of a military man.

Colombia: new challenges for the military who don’t admit to their crimes

Rodrigo Londoño, Julián Gallo and Pastor Alape at a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia.

Colombia: the day FARC leaders faced victims of kidnappings

Women hold a banner that reads in Spanish:

First rift between Colombia’s Peace tribunal and the victims

Two armed FARC fighters frame kidnapping victim in Colombia

Kidnappings in Colombia: the reckoning