Transitional Justice in Colombia: The Environment as-and-for Transitional Justice

Apr 9, 2024 | Transitional Justice Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association
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9 April 2024 | 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT | Register here

The EnPAx Transitional Justice Interest Group is pleased to invite you to a webinar on transitional justice and the environment in the context of Colombia’s transitional justice process. This webinar will take place on April 9th, 2024, from 9:20 to 11:40 EDT, and is graciously co-hosted by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

The signing of the 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement formally ended the more than fifty-year conflict between the FARC and the Government of the Republic of Colombia. Key to the flourishing peace in the Colombia transitional justice process is a flourishing environment, especially in the territories where much of the conflict occurred.

However, since the signing of the agreement, environmental challenges have increased,  highlighting new challenges and also new innovations for the practice and study of the field of environmental peacebuilding, transitional justice, and conservation. Understanding how the environment factors into transitioning to peace and can serve as a formal and informal vehicle for transitional justice is critical to peacebuilding. The case and contexts of Colombia offer a novel and still unfolding opportunity to explore these questions and draw out lessons for facilitating sustainable peace.

This webinar comprises two panels, each lasting 1 hour 10 minutes. Each panelist will present for 15 minutes, followed by a 20-minute discussion. 

The first panel (9:30 - 10:40) features esteemed speakers Angela María Amaya-Arias (Director of Research at the Department of Environmental Law, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Colombia), Gloria Amparo Rodriguez (Professor of Law and Director of the Public Law Research Group, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia and Adjunct Judge of the Constitutional Court of Colombia), and Josefina Echavarría Alvarez (Professor of the Practice in the Keough School of Global Affair at the University of Notre Dame, USA, and Director of the Peace Accords Matrix, a research initiative of the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies) and Tatiana Menjura Roldán (Scholar at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA), who will both present together.

The second panel (10:50 - 12:00) includes distinguished panelists Maria Paula Prada Ramírez (Former Permanent Advisor to the President of the Truth, Reconciliation and Non-Repetition Commission and Scholar at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA), Juan Fernando Lucio (Director of PASO Colombia, One Earth Future), and Natalia Jiménez Galindo (Environmental Peace Building Consultant).