The methodological development of the documentation of cases of serious human rights violations and infringements of international humanitarian law to be submitted to the special jurisdiction for peace, involved the structuring of stages of development, which below we expose:
Phase 1: Determination of cases type.
This phase consisted in the determination of the parameters in which the identification of cases was founded, with four reference points to know:
1.Temporary: On the basis of analysis from the database of testimony made it in CREDHOS by the conflict's victims, It was demonstrated that the periods of more victimization, impact over the civil population and impunity, were: the first at the end of the eighties and early nineties (which is located in the operation of groups of military intelligence and sicarial), the second at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century (which accurately with the socket paramilitary of Barrancabermeja) and the third subsequent to 2010 (with the denial of the continuity of the misnamed "falsos positivos").
2.Selection of criminal categories: it was identified that the victimizing acts of greatest impact on the population, and in which there are higher levels of impunity are those concerning the enforced disappearance of persons, massacres and executions Extrajudicial.
3.Victims' Universe: when analyzing the database of victims who have declared in CREDHOS, and the population those who continuously attend to consultancy and the accompaniment of the corporation are victims of State crimes, so the priority was given to the selection of these cases.
4.Characterization of victimizers: on base of the last numeral, it was determinated the investigation to State of agents' behavior. At the beginning it was included the "third civilians" involved with victimizing facts, however, in the face of subsequent modifications realized by Constitutional Court to the regulations that regulates the JEP's competences, those cases were excluded.