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Notes
* JANO is an organisation in Colombia established to promote restorative justice in Colombia and more widely in South America. Jano is the name of the mythological Roman god who sees the past and the future.
1 To mention but a few examples: Reconciliación Colombia, Fundación para la Reconciliación, Fundación Agape, ‘Memorias a Color’, ‘Nuestras Historias-50 Crónicas de Reconciliación’, Policía Nacional de Colombia, Citation2016.
2 As is standard practice, the transitory constitutional reform approved in Congress, (Legislative Act No.1 2017) is now being studied in the Constitutional Court to ensure the text complies with the Constitution and procedural formalities. This could be subject to modifications if the Constitutional Court so decides.
3 Figures produced by the Justice and Peace Information System, SIJY the acronym in Spanish, and included in the article, ‘More than half of the paramilitary that entered Justice and Peace have deserted from the process’, (Seccion Justicia - El Tiempo, Citation2017).
4 Some examples include La Paz Querida, Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ), Reconciliación Colombia, Fundación Ideas para la Paz, DiPaz Colombia, Fundación Paz y Reconciliación, groups of artists, painters, musicians, youth organisations or spontaneous mobilisations, women’s organisations and their national networks.
5 CNRR is the Spanish acronym most commonly used.
6 See the international comparative study of reparation programmes, carried out by the Carr Center, Kennedy School for Human Rights, Harvard University, which was commissioned by the National Agency for Victims’ Assistance and Reparation, in Colombia, 2015.
7 Almost 8,000 demobilised persons have received certificates validating their contributions to the truth, according to Alvaro Villarraga, Director of the Acuerdos de la Verdad, National Centre for Historical Memory (Osorio Granados, Citation2017).
8 See (Policía Nacional de Colombia, Citation2016).
9 See experiences in Cali, December, 2016; Bojaya, September, Citation2016, Chinita, San José de Apartado, September, 2016.
10 See: http://redprodepaz.org.co/