Abstract
This article, product of the author’s academic and practical research, studies forced displacement in Colombia as an international crime. The analysis is carried out under the general framework of the new demands to the traditional principles of Criminal Law, that the prosecution of this crime has stressed in Colombian internal legal system, since its incorporation in the current Criminal Code –both, as an infraction against humanitarian law and as a crime against the personal autonomy. After studying the characteristics of these two crimes and the most recent case law, the article emphasize the principal dogmatic and political demands that nowadays implies the prosecution of forced displacement as an international crime in Colombia.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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