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Overcoming the Original Sin of the “Original Condition:” How Reparations May Contribute to Emancipatory Peacebuilding

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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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  1. http://www.vanguardia.com/historico/99123-gobierno-revelo-que-bacrim-tendrian-4200-combatientes

  2. 86 % of violence against trade unions has been carried out against CUT’s members. Statistics from the National Trade Union School.

  3. National Symposium for Victims Belonging to Social Organisations (2007), Bogotá 26 to 28 July 2007.

  4. 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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  1. School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, New Arts Building, The Scores, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AX, UK

    Roddy Brett

  2. Colombian Trade Union Confederation and Colombian Workers’ Confederation, Calle 35, 7-25, Piso 9, Bogota, Colombia

    Lina Malagon

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Submitted as part of the special section on Reparations and Peacebuilding edited by Pamina Firchow and Roger Mac Ginty.

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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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