Special Jurisdiction for Peace

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace, known in Spanish as Jurisdiccion Especial para la Paz (JEP) and also called Special Justice for Peace, is the Colombian transitional justice mechanism through which FARC members, members of the Public Force, and third parties who participated in the Colombian armed conflict are investigated and put on trial. As the justice component of the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition, it addresses crimes committed before the peace agreements between the government of Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC guerrillas were signed on November 24, 2016; it was approved by the Colombian Senate in March 2017 and has been in force since. Its creation was agreed as part of the Havana peace accords as an accountability system intended chiefly to satisfy victims rights, tasked with clarifying the context and the most serious and representative crimes committed because of the armed conflict, on the premise that some of those crimes are too serious to be subject to amnesty or pardon. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/