Conscientious objection as an exempt of criminal responsability in Colombia

Abstract

Conscientious objection is one of the most studied topics in the foreign constitutional literature in recent years, which, however, in our environment is almost non-existent. In Colombia, it has not been analyzed in depth its possible treatment as a cause of absence of innominate responsibility in the CP of 2000. The purpose of this academic text is to verify the possibility of applying conscientious objection, either as a cause of atypicality or as a cause of inculpability (for lack of enforceability), and determine its particular characteristics and dogmatic elements in the light of national and international doctrine and the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, which has recognized it in many vital areas, such as, for example, in licit abortion, health practices, education and compulsory military service, among other social activities