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NARRATIVE TRUTH AND EPISTEMIC OBJECTIVITY IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: THE CASE OF THE TRUTH COMMISSION IN COLOMBIA

By April 6, 2023April 6th, 2026Vol. 10.3

by Juan Carlos Quintero-Calvache*, Adriana María Buitrago Escobar, Helver Javier Cadavid Ramírez

ABSTRACT

Almost always the truth is the first to be sacrificed in the development of the war and even at the end of it. An attempt is made to make a comprehensive exercise of the different categories of truth, as an attribute of discourse, to define the type of truth that is incorporated into the narratives that make up the content of the Final Report of the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition in Colombia. To this end, a discussion is raised between the different perspectives of truth with John Searle’s theory of extreme realism. The documentary analysis of two of the eleven volumes that are part of the work of the Final Report entitled “There is a future if there is truth” is used.

 

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