Roberto Saba

People with disabilities face both physical barriers (like lack of wheelchair ramps) and structural ones. Chico Ferreira/Reuters

February 22, 2017

Around the globe, people with disabilities face unseen discrimination. We must do better.

Roberto Saba, Universidad de Palermo

It’s past time to dismantle the (often invisible) barriers that keep people with disabilities less healthy, employed and educated than other groups worldwide.

An October 2016 peace rally in Bogota, just before the final accords were signed with the FARC guerillas. John Vizcaino/Reuters

February 17, 2017

Advice for Colombia from countries that have sought peace – and sometimes found it

John Brewer, Queen's University Belfast; Olivera Simic, Griffith University; Roberto Saba, Universidad de Palermo, and Stephanie Perazzone, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

What can Colombia can learn from other nations’ transitions, both successful and unsuccessful, from war to peace?

Colombians filled Bogota’s Plaza Bolivar on October 6 in support of the peace process with the FARC, derailed by an October 2 plebiscite. John Vizcaino/Reuters

October 12, 2016

From Brexit to Colombia’s No vote: are constitutional democracies in crisis?

Roberto Saba, Universidad de Palermo

Of many ways to make fundamental decisions in a constitutional democracy, Colombia and Great Britain chose the riskiest of all options: the plebiscite.

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Around the globe, people with disabilities face unseen discrimination. We must do better.

Advice for Colombia from countries that have sought peace – and sometimes found it

From Brexit to Colombia’s No vote: are constitutional democracies in crisis?

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