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The peace process with the paramilitaries in Colombia |
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Introduction: Give War a Chance?
This chapter discusses a frequently disregarded aspect of negotiated settlements: the crisis of the proportionality of justice, and the need of establishing a 'correct” public allocation and distribution of guilt. I will claim that allocating and distributing guilt 'correctly” may be a necessary condition for achieving long term, sustainable, peace.
By long term peace I mean the presence of a set of conditions that facilitate the arrival to a strategically stable equilibrium, in which no relevant existing actor has either the reasons or the means to quit the accord, and the barriers to the entry of new armed challengers are very high. By negotiated settlement I understand any solution of a macro-social dispute through means different than the military victory of one of the parts. At a certain level of generality, all of these agreements (ends of civil wars, regime transitions, etc.) face similar problems, and I believe that the distribution and allocation of guilt is one of them.
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