ABSTRACT

This article interrogates how survivors/victims participate in peacemaking and victim-centred Transitional Justice initiatives, focusing on the role of the victims' delegations during the Santos-FARC/EP peace talks in Colombia (2012-2016). The article presents unique empirical data, drawing on sixty-eight interviews with participants from the talks. The research assesses Colombia's victim-centred approach, arguing that the delegations shaped the content of the peace agreement, influenced historic narratives of victimhood and shaped victim-perpetrator relationships, facilitating victim agency and empowerment. However, wider political and economic prerogatives and dominant TJ tendencies constrained the broader exercise of agency, whilst participants experienced episodes of disempowerment and instrumentalisation.

摘要

本文询问幸存者/受害者如何参与建立和平和以受害者为中心的过渡司法倡议，重点关注受害者代表团在哥伦比亚桑托斯-哥伦比亚革命武装力量/EP 和平谈判（2012-2016 年）期间的作用。这篇文章提供了独特的经验数据，借鉴了对会谈参与者的 68 次采访。该研究评估了哥伦比亚以受害者为中心的方法，认为代表团塑造了和平协议的内容，影响了受害者的历史叙述，塑造了受害者与施暴者的关系，促进了受害者的代理和赋权。然而，更广泛的政治和经济特权以及占主导地位的 TJ 倾向限制了更广泛的代理行使，而参与者则经历了权力丧失和工具化的事件。