In the past three decades Colombia has experienced a multi-actor internal armed conflict. This has led to a challenge in how to transition from war to peace– in other words, from a system that is based on international humanitarian law to a system based on international human rights law. We will discuss some of the uses of each legal framework and its outcomes regarding the Total Peace Policy proposed by the government in 2022.
Presented by Valentina Salazar Rivera and Andres Succar Cuellar, students in the LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law.
Lunch will be provided.
Valentina Salazar Rivera
Valentina del Sol Salazar Rivera is a Colombian lawyer interested in criminal justice reform. She has worked as legal advisor to Justice Humberto Sierra Porto at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights since 2019, as well as instructor and researcher at the Criminal Law Department (and formerly also the Constitutional Law Department) of the Universidad Externado de Colombia. She was also a legal intern at both the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), Colombia's transitional justice tribunal, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Andres Succar Cuellar
Andres Succar Cuellar is a Colombian lawyer with 14 years of legal experience, serving since 2018 as UTL Advisor to the Congreso de la Republica de Colombia, Camara de Representantes, responsible for the drafting and legal analysis of much of Colombia's legislation in all areas impacting civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. He was advisor to the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Directorate of Colombia's Ministry of Defense, and Collaborator Ad Honorem at the Office of Judge Magistrate Manuel Jose Cepeda in Colombia's Constitutional Court.