Is Corruption Evil?
Cross-posted at Global Dashboard. Corruption is generally vilified as an unmitigated evil. It disenfranchises the poor, weakens public services, reduces investment, and holds back whole societies. And...
View ArticleWars Old and New: How Our Definitions Can Cloud Our Understanding – Fabio...
Civil war and conflict has ‘changed’ dramatically since the fall of the iron curtain–or so we have been led to believe. In fact, it is our understanding of internal conflicts and the way we explain...
View ArticleHow the International Drugs Trade Complicates Peace Negotiations in Colombia...
Assessing the role of coca and cocaine and the illegal drugs trade is as complicated as assessing the history of the Colombian conflict and violence. The origins of violence transcend the existence of...
View ArticleHow Democratic is Colombia? Reflections on the Presidential Campaign – Fabio...
The current presidential campaign in Colombia and the first round of the election for the president of the country, with Oscar Ivan Zuluaga and Juan Manuel Santos running as presidential candidates,...
View ArticlePreventing Fragile Cities From Becoming Failed Cities – By Robert Muggah
The sheer pace and scale of urbanization is precipitating one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in human history. More than half of the world’s population now resides in cities. At least 500...
View ArticleColombia Peace Negotiations: A Thousand Days of War (and Beyond)? — By Fabio...
The second of June marked a thousand days since the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP (commonly referred as FARC) officially started negotiations towards the end of the conflict in Colombia. The...
View ArticleExternal Anchors: Crucial Underused Pathway Out of Fragility
My op-ed at The Guardian discusses the importance of external anchors to strengthening institutions within fragile states: Now, however, Guatemala’s elites are at last being called to account. The...
View ArticlePeace and Reconciliation: Lessons from Colombia for Armed Conflicts
Colombia can be regarded as the longest running civil war in the world. However, the country can also be seen as an example of successful peace initiatives and failed peace attempts; a series of...
View ArticleInclusive Social Contracts in Fragile States in Transition: Strengthening the...
Transitions often struggle due to underlying fault lines that divide societal groups and debilitate institutions. This new publication (published by the Institute for Integrated Transitions) highlights...
View ArticleElections: The risks for implementing peace agreements
Ivan Duque took office as the new president of Colombia on August 7th. With his arrival a series of questions with regard to the sustainability and implementation of the Colombia peace process with the...
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