Negotiating Transitional Justice

Negotiating peace with justice is notoriously difficult. This book offers an original theory and set of essays on the topic, sharpened by the authors' first-hand experience of the complex Colombian negotiations with the FARC rebels. Appealing to scholars and practitioners concerned with peace mediation, transitional justice and the Colombian talks.

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The recent Colombian peace negotiations took the art and science of negotiating transitional justice to unprecedented levels of complexity. For decades, the Colombian government fought a bitter insurgency war against FARC guerrilla forces. After protracted negotiations, the two parties reached a peace deal that took account of the rights of victims. As first-hand participants in the talks, and principal advisers to the Colombia government, Mark Freeman and Iván Orozco offer a unique account of the mechanics through which accountability issues were addressed. Drawing from this case study and other global experiences, Freeman and Orozco offer a comprehensive theoretical and practical conception of what makes the 'devil's dilemma' of negotiating peace with justice implausible but feasible.