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Estudios Socio-Jurídicos
Print version ISSN 0124-0579
Abstract
GOMEZ-ISA, Felipe. Land Restitution and Prevention of Forced Displacement in Colombia. Estud. Socio-Juríd [online]. 2010, vol.12, n.2, pp.11-58. ISSN 0124-0579.
The armed conflict in Colombia, which has generated over three million internally displaced persons, has dramatic humanitarian consequences and raises serious issues regarding the protection of displaced peoples rights. The underlying reasons for the displacement often lie in the dynamics associated with territorial control and land seizures undertaken for strategic, military or purely economic purposes. Domestic and international legal provisions have established the victims right to the restitution of their homes and property as the "preferred remedy" in cases of displacement. However, policies dealing with displacement, both those of the Colombian government and of several international institutions, fail to take this sufficiently into account. A comprehensive reparation policy for victims must necessarily entail the reversion of lands, territories and goods seized in Colombia under the pretext of the internal armed conflict
Keywords : Colombia; human rights; forced displacement; internal armed conflict; victims; right to reparation; right to restitution; humanitarian assistance.