Medellín Shows How Urban Sustainable Development Is Done Right
Ed note. This piece from Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stieglitz appeared in Project Syndicate and is reprinted with permission. NEW YORK – Last month, a remarkable gathering occurred in...
View ArticleFARC Announces Immediate Ceasefire
FARC Announces an Immediate Ceasefire…The announcement Happened in Havana. Three decades of conflict could come to an end. “Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels have declared an indefinite unilateral...
View ArticleA Peace Deal with Colombia’s FARC Insurgency is Tantalizingly Close
The FARC insurgency in Colombia has been raging for fifty years. And now, after a long peace process, it may soon be coming to a formal end. But even if a peace deal is signed, sustaining the peace...
View ArticleCan the UN End the Longest Running Civil War in the Western Hemisphere?
For the last fifty years, Colombia has been embroiled in a horrendous civil war with FARC insurgents. Some 220,000 people have been killed and millions displaced. Now, the government and FARC are...
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How the UN is Shoring Up the Historic Peace Deal in Colombia
This week, Colombia entered into an indefinite ceasefire between the government and FARC, the largest rebel group in the country, following agreement on a comprehensive peace deal. The ceasefire marks...
View ArticleWhy Voters Rejected the Colombia Peace Deal. And What Happens Now?
The 52 year civil war in Colombia between the government and the Marxist rebel group the FARC is the longest running conflict in the Western Hemisphere. But after years of painstaking negotiations,...
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Peace is Breaking Out in Colombia
Colombia marked a major milestone this week in ending its 52 year-long conflict with FARC when the UN certified disarmament of the rebel group as complete. This is a step — and a very consequential...
View ArticleFor the first time, an International Treaty to Protect Environmental Activists
In many Latin American countries, environmental protests can be a matter of life and death for the activists involved. In a tally put out last year, the non-profit Global Witness reported that 200...
View ArticleYoung People Around the World Are Increasingly Suing Governments To Protect...
In 1998, researchers at Shell wrote a memo in which they predicted a series of devastating storms in the year 2010. The storms would ravage the East Coast of the United States, the memo suggested, and...
View ArticlePODCAST: Colombia Has a New President and he is Opposed to the Peace Deal
Ivan Duque won a run-off election on June 17th to become the next president of Colombia. Duque is a right of center politician who has been a sharp critic of the peace deal negotiated by president...
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