Between hope and frustration: social struggles for a legal framework for reparation in Colombia 2004-2011
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.esde.20110Keywords:
Transitional Justice, Transnational Advocacy Networks, Human Rights, Victims´ Organizations, Social MobilizationAbstract
This article attempts to give account of the recent political process that led to the institutionalization of the victims´ rights discourse, and more specifically, to the enactment of the “Victim’s Law”. Drawing on critical approaches on law and society and human rights, this article sustains that the framing process of new mechanisms of reparation for victims of the armed conflict in Colombia, is a discursive construction. This new discourse is based, on the one hand, on social and legal mobilization led by human rights networks, and on the other hand, on political opportunity structures that made possible the institutionalization of the meanings promoted by those networks. In this regard, human rights networks carried out different actions, such as the incorporation of the transnational discourse on the rights to truth, justice and reparation, and social mobilization of victims through the construction of a discourse of human rights from below. However, despite the persuasive force of that discourse, structures of political opportunity were necessary to make possible the enactment of a new legal framework on reparation.
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