Papers by Rocio del Pilar Peña-Huertas
International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2021
Some contemporary liberal states incorporate provisions that protect the relationship between eth... more Some contemporary liberal states incorporate provisions that protect the relationship between ethnic communities and their lands. However, such measures are quite fragile in terms of effectively protecting the communities against market dynamics. We argue that transitional justice systems, such as that currently being implemented in Colombia, provide the mechanisms to not only guarantee the restitution of the dispossessed lands that ethnic communities have lost during armed conflict, but also to strengthen property rights by providing some guarantees to transform the socioeconomic conditions of these communities and, ultimately, to act as a shield against market dynamics.
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En este panel llevado a cabo en el marco del evento “Enlazados por la paz” segunda edicion 2018, ... more En este panel llevado a cabo en el marco del evento “Enlazados por la paz” segunda edicion 2018, intervienen 4 panelistas invitados: Primero se presenta el Dr. Guy Lamb, Director de la iniciativa de Seguridad y Violencia. University of Cape Town, Sudafrica con el titulo de la ponencia: “Cosechamos lo que sembramos: Paz desarrollo e inseguridad rural en Sudafrica”, donde ofrece una mirada comparativa internacional de la experiencia africana en estos temas en comparacion con Colombia. Luego se presenta la Dra. Rocio del Pilar Pena, profesora de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad del Rosario, quien hace parte del Observatorio de Restitucion y Regulacion de Derechos de Propiedad Agraria. Este programa de investigacion es financiado por Colciencias del cual hacen parte 5 Universidades lideradas por la Universidad Nacional. El titulo de la ponencia de la Dra. Rocio es “La tierra prometida: Evaluando las politicas de regulacion y restitucion de tierra en Colombia”. En su intervencion...
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En este documento se pretende mostrar de manera sucinta el estado en que se encuentra la justicia... more En este documento se pretende mostrar de manera sucinta el estado en que se encuentra la justicia de transicion en Colombia, precisar el contenido y los alcances del nucleo normativo de dicha justicia, y la manera como se ha construido y desarrollado en Colombia un marco juridico que permita eventualmente la restitucion de la convivencia pacifica en el pais, asi como la satisfaccion, en la mayor medida posible, de los derechos de las victimas a la verdad, la justicia, la reparacion y las garantias de no repeticion. El texto es preferentemente reconstructivo, analitico y prospectivo. En este sentido, se evaluan los momentos del proceso de transicion durante las tres ultimas administraciones presidenciales, examinando de modo especifico los elementos normativos y de aplicacion en cada uno de estos momentos. Finalmente, se hace un balance desde las cifras consolidadas para el ano 2010 y se identifican los aspectos principales del que puede ser el desarrollo posterior.
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International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2021
Land restitution programmes, as part of transitional justice systems, make victims face obstacles... more Land restitution programmes, as part of transitional justice systems, make victims face obstacles to prove their material and legal relationship with their dispossessed land. The literature suggests that these obstacles can be overcome by changing the rules of evidence, such as reversing the burden of proof, introducing different legal presumptions and adopting alternative forms of evidence. In Colombia, the Land Restitution Law introduced changes to the rules of evidence for processing land restitution claims. In this article, we claim that this flexibilization of the rules of evidence is essential to guarantee the restitution of property rights to victims, based on a comparison of the evidentiary rules that must be fulfilled by the victims of land dispossession under two transitional justice systems, both of which have been implemented in Colombia in recent years.
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Revista Jurídicas, 2019
Este texto busca identificar las teorías sobre los derechos de propiedad que están involucradas e... more Este texto busca identificar las teorías sobre los derechos de propiedad que están involucradas en las providencias de las Cortes Constitucional y Suprema de Justicia en el tema de la asignación de derechos de propiedad sobre predios baldíos, evidenciando sus tensiones e interacciones recientes. Entonces, se asocian las teorías del utilitarismo y de Locke explicadas en un primer momento, con los argumentos revisados en 17 providencias de las Cortes referidas a acciones de tutela que pretenden revisar procesos de prescripción del dominio entre julio de 2014 y octubre de 2016. La revisión muestra los argumentos de la Corte Constitucional con la teoría utilitarista que fue respaldada por la Corte Suprema, excepto a inicios de 2016 cuando se acogieron nociones de la teoría de Locke sobre los derechos de propiedad. Además, se muestran intentos de abstraer la discusión sobre baldíos del ámbito constitucional para trasladarla al habitual escenario del derecho civil.
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Tilburg Law Review
This article aims to propose a methodological design to explain and assess the land titling progr... more This article aims to propose a methodological design to explain and assess the land titling programs that have been implemented in Colombia since 1991. The methodology incorporates elements from social and legal sciences in order to analyze the results of land titling programmes in terms of the campesinos' legal and social relationship with their land. This methodology focuses on evaluating whether land titling programs produced a change in the beneficiaries' land rights. Consequently, the proposed analysis helps to understand how legal regulations affect and transform social relationships.
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Journal of Agrarian Change, Sep 20, 2017
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The Colombian government and the main guerrilla, the FARC, signed a peace agreement in November 2... more The Colombian government and the main guerrilla, the FARC, signed a peace agreement in November 2016. The establishment of an agrarian jurisdiction is one of the settlements they have reached. This article evaluates the already existing capacities the Colombian state has developed, based on an analysis of the ongoing land restitution process. Based on an analysis of some judicial decisions taken in the context of this process, and on three in-depth interviews with judicial operators involved in it, the article makes two main findings: the procedural innovations of the land restitution process and the application of the constitutional precept of the effective enjoyment of rights guarantee the effective access to justice for rural populations and to the social rights aimed at protecting and stabilising their property rights. For these reasons, these features will prove to be useful in the establishment of an agrarian jurisdiction in Colombia that will represent a guarantee of non-repetition.
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