DWA 240 Human Rights in Colombia: Comparative Perspectives
Colombia’s 2016 peace accord formally brought an end to a half-century of that country’s civil wars. The accord’s implementation, however, has been troubled. This raises issues relevant to Colombia and to other locales putatively transitioning out of violent conflicts. This course will address those issues in a Colombian context and by comparative reference to examples from other countries in the Americas and around the globe. Specifically, what are human rights and how might they inform peace-making in a country such as Colombia? Are they relevant to more effective transitional justice processes? More specifically, can they inform a truth-telling processes that takes into account the distinct context of a country such as Colombia and helps it establish the basis of a more pluralistic social contract that engages all of its remarkable diversity, including identities (ethnic, gender, sexual) that have long been marginalized?
Cross Listed Courses
LLAS 261