The death of a historic judicial milestone? The Brown sentence and educative integration
It is doubtable that the central role of the contemporary constitutionalism has placed a part in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954. Many of us educate ourselves admiring the capacity of the social transformation that Brown embodied. For the legal modern conscience, Brown is the clearest sign that the law can be a motivator in social transformation and for human emancipation.
Read MoreChávez and the FARC
This article gives three reasons why the support from the Venezuelan president to the FARC complicates things for Colombia.
Read MoreThe rural country without State presence
A measure that as one moves further away from the State capitals it vanishes. The power is in the hands of the State’s intermediaries.
Read More2008: the year of local public politics
The first thing that the next 1096 mayors and 32 governors should do starting January 1, 2008 is to coordinate the elaboration of their respective local plans of development as well as a sort of comprehensive four year plan. The eradication of certain practices evil in their design and approval and determined civic participation in their procedure, will be the key for recognition in the local environment.
Read MoreThe Gentleman’s Club on a Electronic Platform: An Institutional Analysis of the Colombian Stock Exchange
“The stock exchange is a medium power in the economic fight”, wrote Max Weber in 1894 in a pedagogical pamphlet on the theme. In the same way as a war needs “rifles y cannons”, “a strong market” is necessary in times of peace, when “the nations continue their inexorable and inevitable fight by their national existence and economic power” (in Swedberg 1998: 184).
Read MoreIngrid as a symbol and as a reality
Rodrigo Uprimny, director of Dejusticia, argues that Ingrid Betancourt’s moving letter can become a type of “Diary of Ann Frank” about the drama of kidnapping in Colombia.
Read MoreGifts, the act of giving
Many serve more to increase the collective hypocrisy of the generosity than for feeding affection.
Read MoreNavigation letters
Danilo Rojas, professor at the National University and founding member of Dejusticia, calls attention on the importance of the first months of 2008 in the matters of planning and participation, as well as the equilibrium that should exist between these two notions.
Read MoreYielding for liberation to the kidnapped?
Before Ingrid Betancur’s tests of survival, it fits to ask: under what circumstances can a person consider he has the right to cause other grief or punishment?
Read MoreThe value of caution
Rodrigo Uprimny, director of Dejusticia, argues that the crisis with Venezuela has more value in caution than in verbal chauvinism.
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