The duty of Transitional Justice: as a principle and not as a rule of law
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18041/1794-7200/criteriojuridico.2018.v15n1.5372Keywords:
Transitional justice, peace, truth and reparationAbstract
This article takes up the concepts of "principles and norms" defined by Uprimny (2014) and collaborators in their document Justice for peace; Atrocious crimes, the right to justice and negotiated peace, and the concepts "on principles and rules" of Atienza and Ruiz (1991) are added to deliver a conceptual approach that superimposes the concept of the duty of transitional justice as a "principle" and that precedes the concept of "regulated rule"; attention is focused on the Colombian case as a scenario in which it is at stake to address the issue of armed conflict as the need for peace, truth and reparation to subsequently move forward in concomitance with the regulatory duty of the State to investigate, prosecute and punish. It is precisely in this aspect that ensures that progress to obtain a stable and lasting peace as promoted by the current negotiations, based on the understanding that the thesis under this article acquires magnitude when trying to ignore and belittle the concept of the principle, prefixed to the rule rule.
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