Transitional justice according to international standards for the protection of human rights, must satisfy the demands of the victims regarding the rights to truth, justice, reparation, and measures of non-repetition. Nevertheless, as far as the Colombian case is concerned, the persistence of the armed conflict shows a tension between the defense of human rights and the imprecise outcome of the transitional justice process. For this reason, the main advances of the Special Tribunal for Peace are identified, noting among other things that fear and crime factors, as categories of analysis, have legitimized the attack against the "enemy", since the historicity of the armed conflict as a continuum.
