The Truth Commission held a meeting for admitting of responsibility, in which the former AUC paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso and the former commander of the FARC-EP Rodrigo Londoño gave testimonies.
Embrace Dialogue and the Winchester Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace invite you to “Conflict Dynamics and Challenges for Peace with the ELN”, a public dialogue with Elizabeth Dickinson (Senior Analyst Colombia, International Crisis Group) and Kyle Johnson (Cofounder, Conflict Responses).
Chair: Andrei Gómez-Suárez (Winchester Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace & Embrace Dialogue).
In this seminar, based on an article published in World Politics, ‘The Logic of Illicit Flows in Armed Conflict’ (2020), Dr Annette Idler analyses why there is variation in how violent nonstate groups interact in armed conflict.
One of the most commonly fraught relationships in a country’s political transition is the relationship between a Truth Commission and the Armed Forces. In Argentina, the Armed Forces denied the findings of the Never Again report and promoted their own independent version of what happened during the dictatorship. In Peru, the Army spoke out firmly against the Truth Commission’s final report, suggesting it was favouring the “terrorists” and in Guatemala, the Armed Forces consistently opposed the Truth Commission from the beginning of its mandate to the very end.
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