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The Plenary Chamber of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) elected this Thursday to Eduardo Cifuentes placeholder image as the new president of that jurisdiction, Alexandra Sandoval Mantilla as vice president.
The two were chosen to a period of two years in which they will be at the head of the JEP. Your period begins on November 4.
Cifuentes will replace the president Patricia linaresWhile Mantilla will occupy the position left by Xiomara Balanta, who were elected for a period of three years as they were the first to occupy this position of this justice, created from the peace agreement with the FARC.
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The two were chosen in a virtual full room in which the process was accompanied, at the request of the presidency of the JEP, by delegates from the Attorney General’s Office.
Eduardo Cifuentes Muñoz, the new president of the JEP, was born in Popayán and is a lawyer from the Universidad de los Andes. He is also a doctor of law from the Complutense University of Madrid.
He arrived at the JEP in January 2018 as a magistrate of the Appeals Section, of which he was president.
Your resume reads that before entering this jurisdiction He was a magistrate and president of the Constitutional Court, between 1991 and 2000. In that high court, he led changes in jurisprudence regarding the right to a vital minimum, the right to equality, protection against judicial decisions, unconstitutional states of affairs, economic and social rights, the ownership of rights of ethnic communities, control in states of exception, territorial autonomy, among others.
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He was also Ombudsman between 2000 and 2003, where he created the Early Warning System, which has served to warn of possible human rights violations and violence in the territories. In addition, it created the mechanism for defensive resolutions, defended vulnerable communities and populations, and promoted the ratification of the Rome Statute.
He has also served as director of the Human Rights division of Unesco, between 2003 and 2005, member of the national group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration of The Hague, mediator before the Special Commission for the treatment of conflicts before the ILO, president of the Andean Council of Ombudsmen (2003-2005) and dean and professor of the Faculty of Law from the Universidad de los Andes.
As a professor, the JEP recalls, he “actively participated” in the movement that led to the 1991 Political Constitution.
The new vice president
Alexandra Sandoval Mantilla, new vice president of the JEP.
Alexandra Sandoval Mantilla, from Bogotá, has been working at the JEP since January 2018 as coordinating magistrate of the Gender Commission that seeks the implementation of the gender approach in this jurisdiction.
She has been a senior attorney at the NGO Women´s Link Worldwide, an assistant magistrate at the Council of States, and a senior attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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She is a lawyer from the Universidad de los Andes and did a master’s degree in human rights and international criminal law at the University of Utrecht (Holland).
She has also been a professor at the Universidad de los Andes, and at the Universidad Javeriana de Cali, and has given multiple conferences and talks in various Latin American countries.
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