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52 Stan. J. Int'l L. 211 (2016)
Ending Wars, Doing Justice: Colombia, Transitional Justice, and the International Criminal Court

handle is hein.journals/stanit52 and id is 227 raw text is: ENDING WARS, DOING JUSTICE: COLOMBIA, TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE, AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ALLEN S. WEINER INTRODUCTION......................................................212 1. THE COMPETING INTERESTS........................................214 A. Arguments for Criminal Accountability.................214 1. Retribution............................................214 2. Deterrence............................................214 3. Victim-Centered Justice........................ ..............215 4. Peace and Reconciliation.................................215 5. The Colombia Context.................. .................217 B. Arguments Against Criminal Accountability .....................217 1. FARC Opposition......................................217 2. Government Concems....................................218 3. Capacity.............................................219 C. Colombia in Comparative Context..............................219 II. THE PROSPECTS AND LIMITS OF A TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE COMPROMISE........222 A. Transitional Justice Alteratives to Prosecution....................222 B. The Limits of Altemnatives to Prosecution.......................223 1. Treaty-Based Limits......................................223 2. Customary International Law. ..............................224 3. Human Rights Law. .....................................226 4. The International Criminal Court...........................226 111. TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND THE COLOMBIAN CONTEXT.......................228 A. The Legal Framework for Peace ..............................228 B. The Constitutional Court Decision...............................230 Senior Lecturer in Law and Director, Program in International and Comparative Law, Stanford Law School. This article is based on an address originally delivered at Universidad Externado de Colombia in BogotA on September 4, 2015. I am grateful to Diana Guz.an Rodriguez and Mirte Postema for comments. 211 52 STAN. J. INT'L L. 211 (2016)