Author(s)

Ángel Emilio Muñoz Cardona

Professor of the Superior School in Public Administration of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.

The purpose of this research paper is to feed the reflection elicited by the peace talks in Colombia for that serve the construction a better country and a better society of the post-conflict to start from citizens’ confidence in its institutions of justice. To achieve this, it is necessary to begin by the concepts of justice that makes Adam Smith in “Lessons of Jurisprudence” and is associated with the concept of utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill as search for the general happiness. The investigation goes to do traceability exhaustive of the Peace Accords in Colombia to compare them with those achieved by other societies of the post-conflict in two countries in Europe and one from Latin America. A historical and theoretical count, that allows us to conclude in the need for a peace agreement to Colombia based in the justice, in other words, respectful of the rights of victims and territories affected by the armed conflict. An agreement for the peace that prohibits at the demobilized is political representatives by popular voting, as show of support at the victims. Punishment of citizen value over those who committed heinous crimes against humanity.

Utilitarianism, Transitional Justice, Sympathy, Social Forgiveness and Social Justice

Muñoz Cardona, Á. (2016) The Justice and the Colombia Peace Talks. Open Journal of Political Science, 6, 261-273. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2016.63024.