Demilitarised female guerrillas in Colombia are hoping to spark a new women’s movement based in the FARC’s revolutionary ideals.
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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.
Twenty-two-year-old Australian woman Cassandra Sainsbury was arrested on April 11 at El Dorado airport in Bogota, Colombia. Sainsbury was due to return to Australia via London. Her suitcase contained 5.8kg…
It is vital for people to demand transparency, but when popular outrage is manipulated for political purposes, democracy suffers.
Colombia’s FARC guerrillas have officially laid down their weapons. How will these former fighters fare in the group’s transition from Marxist rebellion to political party?
Colombia’s plan to turn coca-leaf farmers into coffee growers has a fatal flaw: the market.
The world will be watching the country’s courts.
An academic who has worked with the Colombian government says the path to peace was opened by improving quality of life for vulnerable populations.
Colombia’s deal with the FARC means third parties implicated in international crimes could at last face justice.
Conflict resolution across the world frequently leaves LGBT citizens behind.
From the yellow butterflies of his ‘Hundred Years of Solitude’ to his Nobel acceptance speech, author Gabriel García Márquez remains ever present in his country’s peace process.
Of many ways to make fundamental decisions in a constitutional democracy, Colombia and Great Britain chose the riskiest of all options: the plebiscite.
Scholars share their research with former combatants in Colombia, after a majority of Colombians voted against a peace deal. Can understanding reintegration help peace negotiations move forward?
The voters may have said no to the deal struck with the FARC, but Juan Manuel Santos and his fellow negotiators intend to keep going.
Why would anyone award a prize to a rejected peace deal?
Nobel Prize aside, Colombia continues to choose war over peace and uncertainty over resolution. Is it something ingrained in the national psyche, or the product of a tangled-up political process?
There are several different ways to approach democracy. Polls, elections and referenda all feature, but they’re not the only way to deepen democracy.
Few Colombians who have been displaced by violence voted on the peace deal from abroad. An expert in conflict resolution explains why their voices must be part of the peace process.
A look through the ballot papers shows the declared result in Colombia’s crucial vote is far from definitive.
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Research Fellow, African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), University of Cape Town
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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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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Huddersfield
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Research assistant professor, Universidad de los Andes
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PhD Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Vinnova/Marie Curie Fellow - Researcher in Feminist Security Studies, Lund University
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PhD Candidate at School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Teaching Fellow in Defence, Development and Diplomacy, Durham University
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Associate professor, Universidad Externado de Colombia
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Research and Communications Officer, University of Oxford
