The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) is a transitional justice court agreed between the Colombian State and the extinct FARC in 2016. Since 2022, children and adolescents have initiated with perpetrators prosecuted by the JEP.
The goal is to integrate minors into the restoration processes, one of the great goals of all the scaffolding agreed in Havana to overcome the wounds of 60 years of war. Some of those appearing have responded to them, asking for forgiveness. “Boys and girls are often marginalized in conversations about the conflict,” Ariel Sánchez Meertens says.