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Addressing Displacement Caused by Climate-Induced Disasters: A Call for Action
In recent years, the twin crises of climate change and human displacement have become inseparable, manifesting in devastating ways. From...
CYIS Organisation
Feb 114 min read
The ‘Rights of Nature’ Movement: Potential for an Ecocentric Reorientation of Environmental Law?
Introduction The ‘Rights of Nature’ is a theory and a movement that calls for the extension of rights and legal personhood to nature. It...
Edda Sundström
Oct 26, 20248 min read
Not so “Natural” Disasters: The Historical Processes behind Caribbean Hurricane Vulnerability
As anthropogenic climate change leads to increasingly devastating storms, the Caribbean must contend with much more than the storms...
Sarah Nappi
Oct 26, 20247 min read
A Republic in Green – The Brazilian Armed Forces, Bolsonaro, and History
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has worryingly elevated the influence of the Armed Forces to power levels reminiscent of the military...
Bernardo Kaiser
Oct 26, 20247 min read
Brazil’s Military Crisis: is Democracy in Danger A Year Before the General Elections?
The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly become one of the black swans that mark the political and economic futures of the countries they...
Pablo Sánchez Martín
Oct 26, 20245 min read
The Drying of a Country – Brazil’s Worst Drought in a Century and its Political Roots
By Bernardo Kaiser, South America Research Analyst, with expert insight from University of Sao Paulo professor Pedro Luiz Côrtes ....
Bernardo Kaiser
Oct 26, 20246 min read
Migration from the Northern Triangle: It is Time for a Mini-Marshall Plan
Despite the Biden administration’s pledge to spend $4 billion to address the root causes of migration in the Northern Triangle, U.S....
Sarah Nappi
Oct 26, 20247 min read
Education: A Path to Indigenous Empowerment?
Canada is known internationally for its respect for diversity, human rights, and democracy. However, the discovery of hundreds of...
Angela Wang
Oct 26, 20246 min read
US: The New Climate Champion?
On 20 January 2021, Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States. Throughout his campaign, he made a full 180° on the US...
CYIS Organisation
Oct 26, 20247 min read
Power Struggles and Gang Politics: The New Rulers of the Streets in Venezuela
In the face of a worsening economic crisis and increasing governmental leadership failures, gangs in Venezuela have started filling the...
Wanda Alarcon Ferraguto
Oct 26, 20248 min read
Chile’s Constitutional Election: Lessons for the Improvement of Women’s Political Participation
On May 16th, Chileans elected 155 representatives for the 2021 Constitutional Convention. Approved by a landslide vote in its 2020...
Bernardo Kaiser
Oct 26, 20246 min read
Chaos in Colombia: In the Wake of a Fragile Peace Deal
“It’s no secret that peace never came to Colombia” – Danelly Estupinán (leader of the Black Community’s Process (PCN) in Buenaventura,...
Katherine Hellier
Oct 26, 20248 min read
The Venezuela-Colombia Border: What Can Be Done?
The Colombia-Venezuela border is one of the most volatile and insecure regions in Latin America. On one side, a raging humanitarian...
Katherine Hellier
Oct 26, 20247 min read
Predictions for the 2024 US Presidential Race: Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump
As the 2024 U.S. presidential race heats up, the potential matchup between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump...
Andrei Cursaru
Jul 23, 20243 min read
Enhancing Global Security: The CTBT's Role and Technological Innovations in Nuclear Test Detection
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a cornerstone of international efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear...
Andrei Cursaru
Jul 17, 20243 min read
The Escazú Agreement as a Framework for Peacebuilding in Colombia
Colombian police escorting peasants that eradicate coca crops in the Taraza region ( AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez ). Licensed under...
Julieta Longo
May 20, 20249 min read
Three borders, multiple threats: how climate change is making things worse in the Triple Frontier and what can be done
The tri-border along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil is an arena where multiple criminal dynamics and socio-environmental...
Julieta Longo
Mar 12, 20248 min read
Four Years After the 2018 Political Crisis Outbreak in Nicaragua: What can be done?
April 2018. Tribute to the more than 60 killed during citizen protests in Nicaragua. Photo by: Jorge Mejía Peralta. Licensed under CC BY...
Alexandra Jesus Oliveira Lopes
Sep 6, 20227 min read
The Need for Reforming Education Inequality in the US
Photo by: Scarlet Sappho . Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 Introduction The inequality within the US education system is...
Becky Webber
Aug 10, 20224 min read
Youth Voting and Civic Engagement in the United States
“ The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and...
Sabrina Penati
Aug 1, 20225 min read
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