Line Jespersgaard Jakobsen has started as a postdoc in the project
As a postdoc in the project, Line is responsible for the case-study on Colombia. Contributing to the broader research on the international standardization of transitional justice, one part of her work will investigate whether the Colombian efforts to hold economic actors accountable reflect an emergent and broader ‘corporate turn’ in transitional justice, and to what a degree a more systematic inclusion of economic actors in transitional justice is likely to play a substantial role in innovating, or even disrupting, the international transitional justice standard. Another part of her investigation will study the role of political will to follow the international standard of transitional justice, by looking at the rather politized public debates around peace and justice in Colombia historically and today. The study will follow earlier and ongoing cases taken up in the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace as well as the broader Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition, as it is designed in the Peace Agreement signed between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia — People's Army in 2016. Line will build on extensive document analysis as well as political ethnography, and undertake fieldwork and research stays in Colombia over the course of the next three years. As such, this research on the ongoing Colombian transition towards peace addresses the ways in which Colombian actors co-create, innovate, and contest the international standard of transitional justice.
Line holds a PhD from Roskilde University, carried out in association with the Danish Institute for International Studies. Her doctoral work theorized corporate security practices based on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, and contributed to the fields of political ecology, business and human rights and security studies.