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Members of a church expect to find mutual support from one another - emotionally and spiritually. This is not the case at the South African branch of The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.
A growing field of policy analysis now focuses on reducing armed violence. Remarkable consensus has emerged at high policy levels around the basic elements of an approach to reduce violence.
The GM debate in the developing world encompasses countries with very different priorities. Through the shrill battle of interests, the real agents for change tend to be overlooked.
Six people are dead and more than 20 missing following the Samarco mine disaster in Brazil. But in the rush to blame we must consider the complexity of such failures.
With anti-corruption feeling at an all-time high, a populist comedian has swept to power in Guatemala, while Brazil’s president is facing furious calls for impeachment.
Twenty years ago, Brazil and South Africa were in a similar position when it comes to inequality. Brazil has made significant progress in addressing this, but South Africa hasn’t.
What if Malcolm Turbull’s conception of “21st-century government” imagines a healthy civil society and a responsive economy that values debate, imagination, difference and surprise - all provided by the arts.
The First Fleet had three layovers on its voyage to Australia – one was Rio de Janeiro. As Australia and Brazil celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations, it’s worth remembering this encounter.
Back in 2001, a Goldman Sachs economist said Brazil, Russia, India and China would become the powerhouses of the global economy in the coming decades. Is that still in the cards?
Opposition to president Dilma Rousseff is growing, but there is division over what her fate should be.
Rio 2016 promised much, but with just one year to go Brazilians are still waiting for it to deliver…
Some theorists suggest that such platforms are making our world more efficient by natural selection. The reality is a little more complicated.
Latin America’s two biggest players spent much of the 1980s in a low-grade arms race – and they both had nuclear aspirations. How did they manage to diffuse the tension?
New evidence shows marked similarities between two fossils – one from Brazil, the other South Africa. This confirms compelling geological findings that continents were once one giant land mass.
While still host to some of the world’s most unequal countries, Latin America is making strides where Europe and the US are falling behind.
Brazil is being rocked by a graft scandal of titanic proportions. Could it bring down Dilma Rousseff?
The same persistent weather pattern bringing hot, dry conditions to California is likely connected to a punishing drought in the Sao Paulo area in Brazil.
Latin America’s biggest heavyweight and its worst basket case are tied together by politics and trade. But as life gets harder for both, their bonds are starting to fray.
Brazil will find a way to ship its goods to China whether we like it or not, and for a rainforest roads are much worse than rail.
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Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate, King's College London
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross
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Director of Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Political Science, University of Florida
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Associate professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
