Integrating “storytelling” as a method in judicial processes? The case of Justicia Especial para la Paz
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Colombia, transitional justice, storytelling, criminal law, justicia transicional, narración, derecho penalAbstract
This paper examines how Colombia’s Justicia Especial para la Paz (JEP) emerges as a tribunal within which the roles of history, politics, and transitional justice becomes contested. The paper starts by placing the JEP in a historical, social, and political context. Building on the contextualization, it focuses on how the JEP appears to be an extension of the five-decade long conflict in Colombia in its attempt to deal with the past. The paper underscores how punishing “bad” things is not an easy task. Against this background, the paper challenges the boundaries of criminal liability by discussing and analyzing “storytelling” as an alternative to truth-telling in the JEP in order to not only provide additional nuances to the conflict, but also as a way to, at least theoretically, tie different social collectives together in a post-conflict society and enable the courtroom to function constructively with difficult social issues in the aftermath of cataclysm.
Este artículo examina cómo la Justicia Especial para la Paz (JEP) de Colombia emerge como un tribunal en el que se contestan los roles de la historia, la política y la justicia transicional. El artículo comienza situando a la JEP en un contexto histórico, social y político. Partiendo de la contextualización, se centra en cómo la JEP parece ser una extensión del conflicto de cinco décadas en Colombia en su intento de lidiar con el pasado. El documento subraya cómo castigar lo “malo” no es tarea fácil. En este contexto, el documento desafía los límites de la responsabilidad penal mediante la discusión y el análisis de la “narración” como una alternativa a la narración de la verdad en la JEP, con el fin no sólo de proporcionar matices adicionales al conflicto, sino también como una forma de, al menos teóricamente, vincular a los diferentes colectivos sociales en una sociedad posconflicto y permitir que el tribunal funcione de manera constructiva con las difíciles cuestiones sociales en el período posterior al cataclismo.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1271
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