In my op-ed last week I discussed the findings of research that compared the World Values Survey's results with homicide rates all over the world.

"Let me tell you about my problem with girls," said the Nobel laureate of medicine Tim Hunt in a world conference last week.

Beyond issues of justice, the balance of power reform has both good and bad in the other changes introduced by the state.

Democracy is government through public discussion. It aims to have society come to better informed and fair collective decisions through public debate on collective issues that is rational and transparent.

We have debated much about how social injustice and the state's weakness have influenced violence in Colombia. However, we have not explored how our culture and values affect that same violence.

When we look for those responsable for the judiciary's crisis, usually the disgraceful ones stick out: the lawyer that says on the record that "ethics have nothing to do with the law," or his client, the judge that puts this phrase into practice and schemes to drag on the investigation that proceeds against him in Congress.

The student conduct manuals are like a carte blanche of the small kingdoms known as schools.