Jemima García-Godos

University of Oslo · Department of Sociology and Human Geography

This book seeks to refine our understanding of transitional justice and peacebuilding, and long-term security and reintegration challenges after violent conflicts. As recent events following political change during the so-called 'Arab Spring' demonstrate, demands for accountability often follow or attend conflict and political transition. While tr...

In 2017, former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was pardoned after serving less than half of a 25-year sentence for human rights violations. The measure was taken amidst political turmoil and an impeachment process led by the Fujimorista party against former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Fujimori’s victims in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta...

The signing of the peace agreements between the FARC-EP and the Colombian Government in late November 2016 has generated new prospects for peace in Colombia, opening the possibility of redressing the harm inflicted on Colombians by Colombians. Talking about peace and transitional justice requires us to think about howto operationalize peace agreem...

As a mechanism of transitional justice, victim reparations involve legal and administrative procedures for acknowledging victimhood and the granting of selected forms of redress based on specific definitions of victim and victimhood. Directed as they are towards victims, reparation programs have been implemented in a variety of settings, although n...

Colombian Law 1448 of 2011, known as the Victims Law, addresses the issue of internal displacement and land dispossession caused by the armed conflict. The law aims to help internally displaced people (IDPs) to a better life by restoring their rights to the dispossessed land, to formalize property rights, and to facilitate return. To achieve these...

Turns or shifts of attention inviting us to look at social phenomena from a different angle are common in the social sciences. As students or scholars we have most likely heard of at least one of the many �turns� experienced over the past decades: the cultural turn, the spatial turn, the historical turn, the linguistic turn, the quantitative turn,...

This is the first book to comprehensively and systematically trace the trajectory from impunity towards accountability for past human rights violations in the Latin American region. Based on rich historical analysis, the international team of authors track, across time, the accountability achievements and challenges of nine countries: Argentina, Br...

The aim of this article is to discuss the role that victim groups and organizations may have in framing and supporting an accountability agenda, as well as their potential for endorsing a distributive justice agenda. The article explores two empirical cases where victims' rights have been introduced and applied by victim organizations to promote ac...

In a context of continuing armed conflict, a comprehensive scheme of transitional justice has been developed in Colombia since 2005 through the Law of Justice and Peace, with the aim of achieving peace with one of the armed actors in the conflict, the paramilitary groups. The clear link between the demobilisation of illegal armed groups and the rig...

Long-term peace is commonly stated as one of the main objectives of transitional justice processes. The issue of land and property restitution for internally displaced people (IDPs) has increasingly been considered as a most important element in terms of political stability and the prevention of new outbreaks of violence. What are the implications...

Based on the growing international and academic interest on victim reparations as a mechanism of transitional justice, and the abundant literature that has emerged in the past few years, this article takes a step back to ask what is actually at stake with victim reparations and why. Through a discussion of the core issues and choices present in dev...

The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR)) has been praised for challenging positivist approaches to truth by focusing on victims and narrative interpretation. In this article, I argue that such a focus is not as problem-free as widely assumed. In spite of its normative human rights base, the CVR...