“Ways to resolve civil and family conflicts and their effectiveness in Colombia and Peru” (IDRC – JSCA)

January 5, 2024
Cooperation

Throughout 2023, two JSCA consulting teams formed by Mateo Vasquez Echeverri, Samed Mateo Vargas Montero, Leonardo García and Lizeth Johanna Ñungo Pérez (Colombia) and the Former Minister of Justice and Human Rights Eduardo Vega Luna, Federico Chunga Fiestas and Cristell Paola Casani Apaza (Peru) have traveled to six locations in these countries to meet with officials from conciliation centers, with the aim of reflecting and analyzing the different judicial and non-judicial solutions that exist for the resolution of family and marriage conflicts. living place.

This territorial deployment is carried out within the framework of the project “Ways to resolve civil and family conflicts and their effectiveness in Colombia and Peru”, promoted by the International Development Research Center (IDRC).

The teams have been in Barranquilla, Bogotá and Florencia, Iquitos, Lima and Arequipa, visiting conciliation centers, Superior Courts of Justice and judicial institutions, where professionals and users have been interviewed.

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