Negotiating Transitional Justice

The recent Colombian peace negotiations took the art and science of negotiating transitional justice to unprecedented levels of complexity. For decades the Colombian government fought a bitter insurgency war against FARC guerrilla forces. After protracted negotiations the two parties reached a peace deal that took account of the rights of victims. As first-hand participants in the talks and principal advisers to the Colombia government Mark Freeman and Ivn Orozco offer a unique account of the mechanics through which accountability issues were addressed. Drawing from this case study and other global experiences Freeman and Orozco offer a comprehensive theoretical and practical conception of what makes the ''devil''s dilemma'' of negotiating peace with justice implausible but feasible.