Latin America & Caribbean / Comment
The legal framework for Colombia's peace process
12/10/2005 By Fernando Cepeda Ulloa
The law must be analysed in a highly complex context. Particularly, when it is the first time that a legal tool of this nature will be used.
The phenomenon of illegal armed groups is completely different in each region and municipality.
By analysing the peace process from a merely legal perspective, the dimensions that could contribute to rescuing the legal empire in Colombia and to preventing illegal armed groups from recycling into mafia organisations are lost sight of.
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Keywords
Colombia Conflict resolution Peace Peace processRelated publications
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Bio author: Fernando Cepeda Ulloa
Fernando Cepeda Ulloa has been Ambassador before the OAS in Canada and in the United Kingdom; Colombian Permanent Representative before the United Nations; Minister of Government, of Communications, and Plenipotentiary Minister in Washington and Business Responsible; Vice-minister for Economic Development; Chancellor in charge and Vice-chancellor of the Universidad de los Andes; Director and Professor, Department of Political Science; and Director of the Centre for International Studies.
