BY BASSAM HADDAD I would like to start by positing two remarks about the recent events in the region. I use the word events deliberately to underscore the multitude of problematic and misleading ways in which the protests have been characterized, interpreted, connected, and written off by observers. Are these revolutions, or as Asef Bayat [...]
BY RICARDO F. VIVANCOS PÉREZ In spring 2011, massive protests in Mexico and Spain placed youth center stage in the Hispanic world.1 In Mexico, non-violent demonstrations against drug-related violence, corruption, and impunity—organized by the Movimiento Paz con Justicia y Dignidad (MPJD)2—included a silent protest in Mexico City on May 8, and the Caravana del Consuelo or [...]
BY ARNAUD KURZE Throughout the 1990s the state of Yugoslavia dissolved, ravaged by horrendous conflicts across the region. Since, several retributive and restorative mechanisms to cope with past atrocities have been attempted. Only a few years ago, a regional fact-finding project was launched by several established human rights organizations in the area. Currently, this so [...]
BY JO-MARIE BURT 1 On a warm spring afternoon in Lima this past November, several people stood vigil outside the National Criminal Court in the hours before the verdict in the Parcco-Pomatambo case was to be handed down.1 At the center of the vigil was an old-fashioned scale, adorned in pink roses, with candles lit [...]
BY CARLOS SLUZKI Internally displaced people (IDP), estimated at over 27 million individuals according to United Nations data (UNHCR 2010), are a byproduct of political violence or warfare not only in Sudan, Colombia, or Iraq (which are the three areas with the largest IDP population), but also in Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Democratic [...]
BY KATHRYN JACOBSON, JILL NELSON & KAREN OWEN Limited access to health information and services is one of the many challenges common to rural residents around the world, especially those who live in low income countries. One way to reach out to isolated populations is through radio communications that can provide timely and locally-appropriate information [...]
BY JOAN BRISTOL Mexico has multiple and contradictory identities in the imaginations of both Mexicans and foreigners. Ads and popular media romanticize Mexico as the land of mariachis, beaches, and picturesque ruins of ancient civilizations. Increasing instability, however, due to the drug trade and loss of governmental control in many areas has replaced romance with [...]
BY RAMKISHEN RAJAN According to a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), “a number of developing countries have emerged as significant sources of foreign direct investment (FDI) in other developing countries, and their investments are now considered a new and important source of capital and production know-how, especially for host [...]
BY DAVID H. SHINN Since the end of the Cold War, western political engagement in Africa has tended to be static. There have been some important exceptions such as the international intervention in Somalia led initially by the United States in the early and mid-1990s, support for achieving a comprehensive peace agreement between northern and [...]
BY SIBA N. GROVOGUI The term Global South (GS) gained currency at the conclusion of the Cold War. It is not technically a directional designation, or a point due south to a fixed north. It is a symbolic designation of former colonial entities engaged in political projects of decolonization towards the realization of a postcolonial [...]