Special Jurisdiction for Peace

Its creation was agreed by the government of Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC guerrillas in the framework of the peace agreements signed in Havana as an accountability system with the objective mainly of satisfying the rights of the victims, with the task to clarify "in the context and because of the armed conflict, in particular the most serious and representative crimes" to put an end to more than half a century of armed conflict.

In particular, the right-wing Democratic Center political party[5] (chaired by former president and senator Álvaro Uribe) has maintained that amnesty should not be offered in heinous crimes and has complained that the JEP will "give impunity" to those who committed them.

It is also questioned by some scandals that involve contracts without fulfilling requirements and bribes to JEP prosecutors to favor certain cases, so Uribe proposes to repeal this Special Peace Jurisdiction.

However, several political, social, civil and even international sectors have rejected the heated criticism of the court, noting that the now senator does so in order to guarantee his impunity, since they consider that in several of the crimes now studied by the JEP, include him as a main actor.

The JEP has become a tribunal to judge the FARC and to delegitimize their struggle in historical terms, stating that they were only kidnappers, extortionists, with no ideological or political motives to justify their insurrection.