The Victims in the Peace Process
By Aura Bolívar Jaime |
Victims' participation in the peace negotiation roundtable between the FARC and the national government is an iconic event for our country. Many have minimized the importance of this participation without knowing it is unprecedented in other similar negotiation processes.
Read more The International Criminal Court’s Promise of Justice
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León |
Responsibility for the success or failure of the Rome system depends on all the actors involved
Read more Readings on Equality
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
In the past years, various academic works have changed the discussion about social equality because, with solid empirical evidence, they allow the formulation of five powerful theses, which justify that countries like Colombia adopt a social pact in favor of equality.
Read more In Defense of Western Republicanism
By Mauricio García Villegas |
The marches of the past January 11th in Paris were an impressive demonstration of republican unity, something we have not seen since the Second World War.
Read more I Am Nigeria
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
The silence in the face of the massacre of hundreds of people in Nigeria is just as eloquent as the global cacophony in response to the barbarous murder of 17 people in Paris. The contrast is even more revealing given the events' similarities.
Read more To Prohibit Blasphemy is Useless and Results in Perverse Consequences
By Catalina Botero Marino |
The response to the attacks last Wednesday cannot be censorship but rather continuing the struggle for freedom of expression.
Read more Satire and Extremism
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
"Without humor we are all dead." With that phrase, Chapatte, cartoonists of the New York Times, gave homage to the memory of his Charlie Hebdo colleagues, murdered this past Wednesday in Paris.
Read more Freedom of Expression
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Charlie Hebdo is a French weekly magazine that specializes in political and cultural satire. Its texts are caustic and tend to target leaders on the right, bankers, and religious prophets.
Read more Imposture, the Past, and Grey Areas
By Vivian Newman Pont |
Imagine for a second that we discover that a general of many stars is not who he says he is.
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