1.Truth and Reparations

Juan Camilo Domínguez Cardona holds a BA in Sociology and an MA in Socio-spatial Studies from the Universidad de Antioquia, in Colombia. He is currently doing his PhD in Socio-spatial Studies at the same university. He is a full-time Professor at the Regional Studies Institute at the Universidad de Antioquia, having previously been Coordinator of Post-graduate Studies, of the Master’s in Socio-spatial Studies and of the Specialist Qualification in Theories, Methods and Techniques of Social Research. His research topics have been the comparative studies of the Colombian armed conflict, peacebuilding in Colombia, socio-spatial theory, and soccer and supporters studies.

Juan Sebastián Flórez Herrera holds a BA in History from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He centres the history of social movements and armed conflict in Colombia. Between 2019 and 2022 he was a researcher with the Colombian Commission for Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition. Part of this body’s Bogotá-Soacha-Sumapaz territorial team, he was also the rapporteur for Case 52 / Universities and Armed Conflict, which outlines the history of the violence, activism and victimisation of the higher education sector during the Colombian armed conflict.

Catalina Puerta Henao is a Professor of Political Science at the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia. She holds a BA in Law from the same university and an MA and PhD in History from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellín, Colombia. She has held coordination and research positions in public institutions dedicated to the care and reparation of victims and the construction of memory and truth in Medellín. She has also worked as an expert in the Justice and Peace Chamber of the Superior Court of Medellín. Her research focuses on the understanding of the victim subject in a historical, legal and political sense, the definition of the internal enemy and the processes of clarification and truth (re)construction in the Colombian armed conflict.

Adriana Rudling is a GRI Post-Doctoral Fellow—Transitional Justice at William & Mary, in the USA. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Sheffield, UK. She has held research positions at various academic institutions in Sweden, the UK, Colombia and Norway. She has also worked as a consultant specialising in monitoring, learning and evaluation with (I)NGOs and international aid. Her research interests centre on the interactions between victims of massive and systematic human rights violations and measures and state bureaucracies established in (post-)transitional societies to respond to their harms.