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Victim-centred peacemaking : Colombia's Santos-FARC-EP peace process / Roddy Brett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brett, Roderick Leslie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peace-building--Colombia.
- Peace-building.
- Reconciliation--Colombia.
- Reconciliation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Based on unique empirical research into Colombia's Santos-FARC-EP peace process (2012-2016), this book interrogates how, if at all, survivors and victims may assert agency and contribute to formal peacemaking and transitional justice initiatives.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Victim-Centred Peacemaking: Colombia's Santos-FARC-EP Peace Process
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Violence unhinged
- Building peace amid atrocity
- Themes of the book: the wider significance of the victims' delegations
- Transitional justice and peacemaking
- Victim-centred transitional justice
- Conciliation/reconciliation, peacemaking and transitional justice
- The argument
- Methodology
- The book
- 1 A Concise History of Violence
- A violent post-independence
- 'La Violencia'
- 1948-1953: the seeds of the internal armed conflict
- The National Front and the pillars of the armed conflict
- The internal armed conflict (1964 to present)
- The evolution of political violence and patterns of victimization
- Violence against the political opposition
- Barco and the Statute for the Defence of Democracy
- The 1990s: terrorism in the aftermath of the Cold War
- The interminable conflict?
- 2 Colombia's Aberrational Cold War
- Introduction: The Cold War and its aftermath
- The Caguán talks
- Si vis pacem, para bellum: Uribe's war on Colombia
- Plan Colombia
- The policy of democratic defence and security
- The hurting stalemate
- Concluding remarks
- 3 Getting to Havana: From International Pariah to Innovative Peacemaking
- Emergent political actors within the new paradigm
- The first Santos administration (2010-2014): from hawk to dove?
- The path to Havana: the consolidation of victims and civil society
- 4 The Havana Talks: A Victim-Centred Peace?
- The international context: transitional justice and peacemaking
- The Havana process: antecedents to the victims' delegations
- Framing victim participation
- The victims' forums.
- Framing victim inclusion in the Havana talks
- Why victim inclusion in Havana?
- The perspectives of the members of the victims' delegations
- 5 A Participatory Process? Victim Inclusion and Representation in Havana
- Some thoughts on representation and selection
- The victims' delegations: selection and composition
- Selecting the participants
- The challenge of perpetrator identity
- Gender as a lens for the selection criteria
- 6 Victims as Peacebuilders: The Relational Impact of the Victims' Delegations
- Thinking about the possibilities for intragroup and intergroup encounter
- Transformation at the individual level
- Intragroup transformation
- Changes at the intergroup level
- Limits to individual and intergroup transformation
- 7 The Impact of the Victims' Delegations: Victims as Peacemakers
- Thinking about the scope of transitional justice and participation
- The demands of the victims to the negotiating parties in Havana
- Demands for the right to truth
- Demands for the right to justice
- The right to reparation
- The right to nonrecurrence
- Victims' demands and the framework for accountability
- Conclusions
- Victims as peacebuilders: empowerment and instrumentalization
- Victims as peacemakers: empowerment and instrumentalization
- The instrumentalization-empowerment spectrum
- A more sustainable peace?
- Lessons learned and policy implications from the Colombia case
- The nature of participation
- When participation occurs
- Protection measures
- Did inclusion matter?
- Annex 1: Interview Format
- The victims' delegations to Havana
- Block 1. Biography and armed conflict
- Block 2. Participation in the Havana talks
- Block 3. The day of the hearing.
- Block 4. Impact of the visit to Havana
- Block 5. Role of the accompanying countries
- Block 6. Expectations for the future
- The government and state institutions
- Block 2. Participation of the victims' delegations in the Havana dialogues
- Block 3. Impact of the visit of the delegations to Havana
- Block 4. Expectations for the future
- The organizers (the UN
- the NUC and the ECCC)
- Block 2. Selection and participation of victims' delegations to Havana
- The accompanying countries
- Block 2. Selection and participation of the victims' delegations
- First delegation
- Second delegation
- Third delegation
- Fourth delegation
- Fifth delegation
- Annex 2: Participation in the Victims' Delegations
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9781529238846
- 1529238846
- 9781529238822
- 152923882X
- 9781529238839
- 1529238838
- OCLC:
- 1482449982
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