Isabel Pereira, Luis Felipe Cruz

A balancing act (eBook, PDF)

Drug policy in Colombia after UNGASS 2016

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This document is the result of a project developed by Dejusticia in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and Law of Colombia and the British Embassy in Colombia, with funds from the United Kingdom through its embassy in Colombia. During 2016, two historic events were held to reflect about drug strategies in Colombia: the United Nations Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016) and the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Government and the FARC-EP, which includes the agreement on the "Solution to the problem of illicit drugs". In light of the commitments made by the Colombian State, there are challenges and possibilities for drug policy reform, particularly when hoping to achieve a better balance between a criminalization perspective and the recognition and guarantee of rights to populations affected by prohibition's harmful effects. This balancing exercise calls for incorporating the lens of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and its Objectives, as well as for integrating the sectors of defense, rural and agrarian development, protection and sustainable use of environmental resources, health and education, together with the efforts of peacebuilding in the territories most affected by war and drug trafficking. To achieve the goals proposed in these documents, the role of the international community in the coming years will be fundamental. The United Kingdom Embassy, concerned to broaden its horizons of cooperation, offers to share lessons learned and experiences hoping to improve institutional capacities to meet the challenges of organized crime, rural development, and the prevention and treatment of drug use. Thus, this document presents recommendations for cooperation between these two governments in the light of agreed obligations as well as opportunities to harmonize drug policy and peacebuilding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dejusticia
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789585441262
• Artikelnr.: 68880512

Autorenporträt

Isabel Pereira. Political Scientist from the University of Los Andes, Colombia (2008), and holds Master's degree in Development Studies, with emphasis on conflict and peacebuilding from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland (IHEID) (2015). Her focus is the impact of drug policies on rural development, public health and armed conflict. She currently serves as lead researcher in the Drug Policy line of the Center for Studies in Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia), with special emphasis on the implications of the peace process on drug policies in Colombia and access to controlled drugs and palliative care. She has worked as a professional in international cooperation development projects in conflict areas in the country, and as an advisor to the national government in multilateral negotiations. Luis Felipe Cruz. Lawyer and student of Sociology at the National University of Colombia. His research experience is related to the history and development of the armed conflict in Colombia and its relationship with drug trafficking. Associated with the Drug Policy line of the Center for Studies in Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia), he has worked as a researcher on the human rights costs of counternarcotic strategies.