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The JEP published a call for papers for its collective book on armed conflict, the environment, and territory

Bogotá, 28 August, 2020. The Commission on Territory and the Environment of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) published a national and international call for papers that foster appropriation and reflection on the subject of the territorial and environmental approach of the JEP. Selected articles will be published as part of the compilation book entitled “Armed conflict, the environment, and territory: Reflections upon the territorial and environmental approach before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace."

The call for papers will be open until 15 September 2020. It is directed at people, organizations, think-tanks, and research centers with knowledge and experience in the analysis and development of the concepts of territory and territoriality, including a legal perspective of its implications and the relations between all the factors that come together in these categories, as well as the harms and grievances regarding environmental rights that have been affected by armed conflict. 

Prospective authors will be invited to focus on one of the six thematic areas that make up the publication, presenting their research; case study, either national or international or; analysis of all the relevant case law on one of the following topics:

1.    General conceptions of the territorial and environmental approach.

2.    Territory as the stage of conflict and peacebuilding.

1. Legal framework on the environment and the territory in the context of armed conflict
2. Environmental criminality in the context of armed conflict
3. The impact of armed conflict on the territory and ethnic groups
4. The environment, territory, and prospective justice

 
The JEP's Commission on Territory and the Environment will receive abstracts of the publications not exceeding 1,000 words, footnotes included. Prospective authors may submit more than one proposal. The book will be a bilingual work, in English and Spanish, with a majority of the work being published in Spanish. Therefore, it is recommended that authors submit their proposals in Spanish. The JEP will be responsible for the translation of the bids submitted in English into Spanish.

Other languages, such as French, German, and Portuguese, may be considered for publication on an exceptional basis, depending on the interest and originality of the proposal.

The JEP's Commission on Territory and the Environment seek to strengthen lines of judicial inquiry that incorporate contextual, political, economic, and social elements of the territories and communities where wrongful conduct took place. They involve the set of multiple relations at different levels that individual and collective subjects establish with the environment that they occupy. They also aim at clearly identifying the disproportionate impact that armed conflict had in vulnerable populations who require superior constitutional protection, in fragile and diverse ecosystems, and – generally – in the environment and the habitat of vulnerable communities. They involve the set of multiple relations at different levels that individual and collective subjects establish with the environment that they occupy. They also aim at clearly identifying the disproportionate impact that armed conflict had in vulnerable populations who require special constitutional protection, in fragile and diverse ecosystems, and – generally – in the environment and the habitat of vulnerable communities.