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This short article explores the relationship between transitional justice mechanisms and peacebuilding by analysing the role that reparations may play in transforming or deepening conflict. Research seeks to identify potential components of an emancipatory approach to peacebuilding through the prioritisation of ‘transformative reparations’ processes, framing this proposal within the case study of collective reparations to the trade union movement in Colombia.
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86 % of violence against trade unions has been carried out against CUT’s members. Statistics from the National Trade Union School.
National Symposium for Victims Belonging to Social Organisations (2007), Bogotá 26 to 28 July 2007.
Said process was accompanied by the Colombian Commission of Jurists and the National Trade Union School. Other organisations are contributing to the process. See http://www.codhes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1401. At the same time, both the CTC and CGT have carried out their own institutional reflections on the said themes. Since 2011, all three confederations have been engaged in a collective debate out of which the draft proposal presented below has emerged.
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Brett, R., Malagon, L. Overcoming the Original Sin of the “Original Condition:” How Reparations May Contribute to Emancipatory Peacebuilding. Hum Rights Rev 14, 257–271 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-013-0271-5
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