René Fernando Uruena Hernández, Professor of Law, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, examines peace pedagogy in transitional justice contexts, focusing on the Colombian case.


Professor Uruena Hernández discusses the pedagogical strategies developed by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace to produce educational materials about the transition, as well as the key challenges involved in this work.

Rene Urueña is the World Trade Organization Chair at Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia). A Max Planck Fellow in Law, he has been counsel and several times an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, served as Special Advisor on Complementarity to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as President of the Colombian Academy of International law, and as an adviser of the Selection Committee of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Colombia). He has been a Fellow at New York University, a docent at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at the University of Harvard, and a visiting professor at the City University of New York, and at the universities of Tel-Aviv, Utah, Lapland, and Helsinki. He holds a LL.M. (laudatur) and a Doctor of Law (eximia cum laude) degree from the University of Helsinki, and a law degree and a postgraduate degree in economics from the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).

Warmly welcome!

Organisers: CAP-SHARE, REBOUND and the Faculty of Education, University of Lapland.