Colombia’s 2016 peace accord formally brought an end to a half-century of that country’s civil wars. The accord’s implementation, however, has been troubled. This raises issues relevant to Colombia and to other locales putatively transitioning out of violent conflicts. This course will address those issues in a Colombian context and by comparative reference to examples from other countries in the Americas and around the globe. Specifically, what is transitional justice and how might it inform peace-making in a country such as Colombia? Are human rights relevant to more effective transitional justice processes? More specifically, can they inform a truth-telling processes that takes into account the distinct context of a country such as Colombia and helps it establish the basis of a more pluralistic social contract that engages all of its remarkable diversity, including identities (ethnic, gender, sexual) that have long been marginalized? The course uses Colombia as a focal point, but will draw from other comparative cases both from Latin America and the globe.