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  Abstract: The government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC guerrilla in Colombia started dialogues for peace, after a war that has meant more than 40 years of bloodshed for Colombian citizens. Ex president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who helped Santos winning the elections, is nowadays the main opponent […]

Abstract: San Salvador was a small town built by a group of architects who didn’t dare to dream big. It was meant to be just a small town in a small country.  Now that San Salvador has realized that it is just one of many small towns in a globalized […]

The International Olympic Committee is certainly not bashful about proclaiming its lofty ideals. The Olympics, it says, is about placing sport – silver platter style – at the “service of humanity and to thereby promote peace”. The iconic Olympic rings themselves signify a kind of brotherhood or “union between men”. […]

It was one of our regular nights out with friends when a 7 year old kid approached us to see if we were interested in buying balloons from him. When asked why he was working and not going to school, he shared a heart-rending story of how his parents were […]

Do the Olympic Games provide a unique opportunity for us to come together on a level playing field, or are they just one more circumstance in which the differences between the developed and developing worlds are shown in stark relief?