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Vulnerable Insiders: Constitutional Design, International Law And The Victims Of Armed Conflict In Colombia, David Landau
Vulnerable Insiders: Constitutional Design, International Law And The Victims Of Armed Conflict In Colombia, David Landau
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This article, prepared for a conference on “The External Dimensions of Constitutions” held at the University of Cambridge in September 2016, explains how the Colombian Constitutional Court constructed a set of rights for a group of vulnerable insiders—victims of the country’s long-running internal armed conflict. The Court based its jurisprudence on a 1991 constitutional design that turned towards international law as a way of resolving a severe domestic crisis of violence and legitimacy. The Court has drawn heavily on principles of international human rights law and international humanitarian law to develop a set of protections for Colombia’s massive population of …