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Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) - News from Justice Info

De quoi s'agit-il ?

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.

Colombia, victim of the USAID funding freeze due to the policies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Photo: Musk, dressed all in black, proudly displays a T-shirt bearing the words ‘DOGE’ (acronym for the US Department of Government Efficiency).
Can USAID’s funding freeze put Colombia’s peace process at risk?
14 March 2025 by Braeden Garrett + Tomasina Pearman + Clara Whitney
Colombia’s fragile peace process faces one of its greatest challenges since the 2016 Peace Accord between the Government of Colombia and the FARC guerrilla: for years, USAID has been the single largest provider of humanitarian fun [...]
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. Colombia: Going back to the original balance of justice
25 November 2024 by Paola Molano-Ayala (for Justice Info)
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 [...]
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
21 November 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (our correspondent in Colombia)
The phenomenon of child soldiers was historically a less visible crime to Colombians than kidnapping. It is now at the centre of the second indictment by Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) against the leadership of fo [...]
Trial of Colonel Mejía before the JEP in Colombia. Colombia’s first transitional justice adversarial trial opens
26 September 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (our correspondent in Valledupar, Colombia)
A highly symbolic trial opened last week in a small courtroom of a torrid city in north-eastern Colombia. Colonel Hernán Mejía Gutiérrez, an emblematic figure of the “false positives” scandal to most Colombians, stayed silent whil [...]
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Will the Drummond case be referred to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP) in Colombia? Photo: Construction machinery at work in a coal mine.
2 July 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (our correspondent in Colombia)
The Drummond case, a corporate litmus test for Colombia’s transitional justice Colombian transitional justice’s range of action over civilians allegedly involved in serious crimes during the internal conflict is quite legally limited. But one case could strike out: the case against two top executives of Drum [...]
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.
16 April 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (our correspondent in Colombia)
Colombia’s JEP unveils alternative sanctions but remains silent on punishment After six years of work and three since its pioneering indictments, Colombia's special transitional justice tribunal – known as JEP – is finally getting closer to imposing its first sanctions. With the launch of an environmental r [...]
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.
11 March 2024 by Juanita Goebertus + Juan Pappier
Sanctions in Colombia’s justice process: How to get it right The way Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace will impose sanctions on individuals it has held responsible for serious crimes is crucial to the whole transitional justice model. And it is yet to be clarified by the tribunal. H [...]
A senior jurist from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) listens to a victim in Colombia.
1 March 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (our correspondent in Colombia)
The original internal sin of Colombia’s JEP An opaque recruitment process at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has brought unease and criticism. It came in stark contrast to the exemplary way judges of the transitional justice criminal court were selected. It also hi [...]
In Colombia, an Awá indigenous leader leads a ceremony prior to a hearing before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)
16 January 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (our correspondent in Colombia)
Colombia's Awá Indians, closer to justice but plagued by violence In 2023 the Special Jurisdiction for Peace issued groundbreaking findings on the crimes committed against Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Colombia, especially for the Awá. It has notably included the war crimes of destru [...]
Alvaro Leyva, Colombia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, is enigmatically opposed to certain transitional justice mechanisms in Colombia.
22 December 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (our correspondent in Colombia)
Colombia: a minister's enigmatic attacks on transitional justice Why has Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva insisted before the United Nations that Colombia's transitional justice model is headed for failure - while, at the same time, he promotes the special tribunal's acceptance of former paramilit [...]
Motoya faces JEP justice - General Mario Montoya reviews soldiers in Colombia
7 September 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
War in the time of General Montoya Colombia’s former Army commander Mario Montoya was indicted on August 30 for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The retired general is accused by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace of adopting “a de facto policy that prioriti [...]
The truth about a disinformation campaign against the transitional justice process in Colombia. Former military officials confess before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).
18 July 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: unburying of a political smear against transitional justice On 27 June, the resounding confessions of four soldiers involved in the killing and cover-up of the death of a 23-year-old farmer disproved a vast campaign of disinformation disseminated by the party of former president Álvaro Uri [...]
Luis Fernando Almario accused by JEP in Colombia - Funeral of Diego Turbay (politician) over whom Almario is suspected of persecution.
22 June 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: Special tribunal indicts first prominent politician The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) presented a new indictment on 29 May. It is the first against a civilian politician, the first for persecution as a crime against humanity, and the first from the troubled prosecution secti [...]
Environmental justice in Colombia - High mountain páramo ecosystems under threat (Cumbal, Nariño).
9 May 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia's transitional justice cannot agree on how to prosecute environmental crimes In its latest indictment, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) insisted that "transitional justice is also environmental justice” and deemed ecosystem damage as a war crime. Three magistrates wrote partial dissenting op [...]
Indigenous peoples have been victims of FARC violence in Colombia
27 March 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: new FARC indictment puts spotlight on indigenous and Afro victims Two weeks ago, Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace indicted 10 former regional commanders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This second indictment against [...]
A man (Domingo Navarro) speaks into a microphone during a hearing of the Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) in Colombia.
12 January 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
How Colombia’s JEP earns the respect of sceptical victims In a country where many, especially in the political arena, still tend to see Colombian society as divided in two almost irreconcilable and immovable halves, the very personal processes - away from the public spotlight - of victim [...]
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.
1 September 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: new challenges for the military who don’t admit to their crimes After the last four months major achievements in Colombia in dealing with the past crimes of the military, the new left-wing government now has to deal with the Armed Forces' and defence sector's reluctance to see extrajudici [...]
Rodrigo Londoño, Julián Gallo and Pastor Alape at a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia.
1 July 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: the day FARC leaders faced victims of kidnappings The day of reckoning has finally arrived, between June 21 and 23 in Colombia, when seven former commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) faced their victims in the kidnapping of thousands of people. Followin [...]
Women hold a banner that reads in Spanish:
14 March 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
First rift between Colombia’s Peace tribunal and the victims Colombia’s special peace tribunal is about to open three new – and perhaps final – cases. However, its decision to focus on armed actors and veer from its previous approach centred on symbolic crimes, is bringing a flurry of criti [...]
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