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One of Colombia’s most beautiful areas, El Cocuy National Natural Park was for years too dangerous to visit. No more.
Some of the crucial mechanisms meant to deliver peace in Colombia have yet to be set up.
Conservative congressional reps in Colombia have been stalling votes on key parts of the country’s peace accords through endless petitions and nonstop debate. In short, they’re filibustering.
Now the war is over, academia has a special role to play in securing the peace.
A court decision securing last year’s peace deal and a new ceasefire have invigorated Colombia’s peace process, but there are plenty of ways it could still go wrong.
By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee will no longer be arable. Climate change is changing the game to such an extent that Canada could one day become a coffee producer.
The Atrato River has been awarded rights. But it will be tough to translate these abstract ideals into actual progress.
Bogota’s mayor wants to make the city ‘better for all,’ but repeated police crackdowns have displaced thousands of homeless Colombians. Are clean streets really more important than human rights?
Major nations make labour rights a key part of trade deals. But what happens next?
The highest-profile Australian currently imprisoned overseas, Cassie Sainsbury, is detained in Colombia on drug charges. She was arrested at Bogota airport in April with 5.8kg of cocaine in her suitcase…
It seems the culprits in a “cash-for-kills” scheme that claimed thousands of lives might find a way to wriggle out of the peace process.
Meet the Commoners’ Alternative Revolutionary Force, Colombia’s newest political party. To move beyond its violent past, the new FARC will need a charismatic leader who can win over voters.
The last time the FARC joined in democratic politics, thousands of its members and leaders were murdered. Will this time be different?
As Colombia seeks to rebuild after fifty years of armed conflict, an emerging conservationist movement is linking lasting peace to healthy habitats.
It is a delicate – and dangerous – moment for one of the world’s most ecologically important nations.
Ending violence is only a first step. Research from Colombian universities sheds light on the role of education in peace-building.
Demilitarised female guerrillas in Colombia are hoping to spark a new women’s movement based in the FARC’s revolutionary ideals.
Latin America’s murder rate is the highest in the world, accounting for one in every four homicides on the planet.
Popular protest is on the rise globally, particularly in places with deeply entrenched inequalities.
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Honorary Research Associate, Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University
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Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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Research fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Teaching Fellow in Law, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex
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Research assistant professor, Universidad de los Andes
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Research and Communications Officer, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, Universidad Externado de Colombia
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Teaching Fellow in Defence, Development and Diplomacy, Durham University
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Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University; Institute for Humane Studies