Colombia’s Peace Process: an unprecedented tribunal hands down its first convictions

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Elie is an Emile Noël Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the NYU School of Law's Jean Monnet Center and a Junior Lecturer in Law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where he also earned his PhD.

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Colombia’s Peace Process: an unprecedented tribunal hands down its first convictions

October 9, 2025

Elie Tassel-Maurizi

Mateo Merchán Duque

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, JEP) issued its first convictions on September 16 and 18, 2025. The JEP forms part, alongside other bodies, of the Comprehensive System for Truth, Justice, Reparation, and Non-Repetition (Sistema Integral de Verdad, Justicia, Reparación y No Repetición, SIVJRNR) — a transitional justice framework established by the 2016 Peace Agreement…