Strategies used to satisfy the guarantee of non-repetition by demobilized illegal armed groups

Abstract

To what extent do the justice and peace law, demobilization, reintegration and the institutions that have been created alongside with these processes, ensure that violent acts of illegal armed groups (in later GAI) against human rights will not be repeated in Colombia? The answer depends primarily on identifying and analyzing which are the legal, institutional and psychosocial strategies that have been devised from the national Government with the objective of satisfying the principle of guarantee of non-repetition, which constitutes one of the pillars of transitional justice and truth, justice and reparation, which in turn have been instituted as international standards that any Government should follow when dealing with the challenge of restoring democracy and peace because of the context of violence by armed conflict or repression by a dictatorial regime. It is with these instruments that a scenario plagued of political conflict, social inequity, legal and institutional empties, and human rights violations must addressed.