BY SEAN W. BURGES One of the hot potatoes being passed around the policy branches of most major international development agencies is the question of what to do about the rising group of development actors who are not part of the exclusive club that meets in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Development Assistance [...]
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 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 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 JAIME DAREMBLUM The Organization of American States (OAS), an international institution with headquarters in Washington D.C. consisting of 35 independent states of the Americas, was once the premier democratic forum in the Western Hemisphere. Now it is headed for irrelevance. In recent years, the OAS has been infected with the virus of radicalization, thanks [...]
BY LISA R. PAWLOSKI, JEAN B. MOORE, NIGEL WATERS AND XINIA FERNANDEZ ROJAS INTRODUCTION Obesity is increasingly becoming an epidemic in industrialized nations, particularly in the U.S., where one out of every three adults is obese. However, the U.S. is not alone with this emerging public health crisis. In Europe, rates of obesity among adults [...]
BY DEBRA LATTANZI SHUTIKA I began working with immigrant communities in 1995, focusing primary on new destinations. New destinations are those communities that are experiencing significant immigration, but have had little or no prior history of being locations of migration and settlement. I began my work in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, the “Mushroom Capital of the [...]
BY TRICIA D. OLSEN, LEIGH A. PAYNE, AND ANDREW G. REITER Despite the recent proliferation of transitional justice practices and scholarship around the world, we know very little about whether and how it achieves its goals of strengthening democracy and reducing human rights violations. Findings from the Transitional Justice Data Base (TJDB) fill that gap [...]
BY RONALD GAMARRA HERRERA On April 7, 2009, the Peruvian Supreme Court’s Special Criminal Court handed down a unanimous sentence against former President Alberto Fujimori in the four cases of human rights violations for which he was on trial: collective assassinations in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, and the abductions of journalist Gustavo Gorriti and [...]