Last Tuesday, the seminar on “The importance of contexts construction in judicial investigations” was opened and led by the National Unit of Analysis and Contexts of the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia, headed by Alejandro Ramelli Arteaga.
The opening was attended by the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Serge Brammertz; the director of the German Society for International Cooperation GIZ – Profis project, Andreas Forer; the President of the Superior Council of the Judiciary of Colombia, Pedro Alonso Sanabria, Vice President of the Constitutional Court Luis Ernesto Vargas Silva; the President of the Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court, José Leonidas Bustos and the National Director of Prosecutor’s offices, Elka Venegas Ahumada.
The conference was the scene for discussion topics such as the construction of the context and the protection to the victims of the armed conflict, the importance of contexts in investigations of ordinary criminal justice system and the implementation of methodologies for the construction of historical contexts, as well as the development in the investigation of organized crimes.
The closing of the event will be today, May 15, and will be in charge of the invited panelists Jairo Parra Quijano, President of the Colombian Institute of Procedural Law, Benjamín Bernal Arévalo, Prosecutor of the Unit of Analysis and Contexts, Diego López Medina and Ramiro Bejarano Guzman, professors of the Universidad de los Andes and Jaime Bernal Cuellar, Director of the Department of Criminal Law of the Universidad Externado of Colombia.