One of our coordinators is co-organising a workshop in Oslo, Norway, about the role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ (IACtHR). Deadline for submissions of abstracts is 20 March 2017. The workshop will be held on 15 May 2017. CALL FOR PAPERS The workshop has three specific aims. Firstly, it focuses on the identification […]

The FARC guerrilla and the Colombian Government have decided to give peace a chance. But a rise in killings of social activists and political leaders presents a serious risk to the implementation of their peace agreement. ‘It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth’, wrote the English historian and theologian Thomas Fuller in 1650[i]. […]

In 2017, we commemorate the first centenary of the Russian Revolution. The World Tensions journal is seeking for articles on the legacy of this major event in Latin America. We are therefore happy to share the following call for papers:  “1917–2017: One Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution in Latin America”

Since the early 1990s, Latin American political elites have enthusiastically embraced the values and practices of democracy. At the international level this enthusiasm was translated into collective commitments to defend democracy against its enemies, through specific instruments added to the legal frameworks of the regional organizations existent in the region. The tendency has continued in […]

The LatAm Working Group held its first LatAm Talk at the Badia Fiesolana on 8 November 2016. The purpose of LatAm Talks is to have informal but informed discussions on issues currently affecting the Latin American region. On this first occasion, four EUI researchers shared their views on the outcome of the referendum recently organised […]