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Lex Pacificatoria Colombiana: Colombia’s Peace Accord in Comparative Perspective

Part of: Colombian Peace Talks and International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Christine Bell
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In this short piece, I open a conversation over how the Colombian Final Peace Accord provides evidence of, and a contribution to, a more general lex pacificatoria or “law of the peacemakers” (lex pax for short). In light of the Accord’s recent ballot defeat, I integrate into this assessment the merits of using a referendum to approve (in Colombia’s case “affirm or deny”) the Agreement as a whole. Throughout, I draw on a peace agreement database which has coded over one thousand four hundred peace agreements since 1990 for comparative insight.

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Symposium on the Colombian Peace Talks and International Law
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 165 - 171
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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