Transitional democracies, particularly in Africa, often produce flawed elections where judicial processes are shoehorned into determining the outcome of elections. Questions inevitably arise surrounding how this rising judicialization affects both…
Some may take comfort in the fact that humanity has not yet destroyed itself with nuclear weapons. However, what worked for nuclear power may not work for genetic power. The…
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine’s decision to permit parishes to celebrate Christmas on December 25 appeared to be a political ploy designed to diminish the influence of the Russian Orthodox…
Peru’s recent protests have been the most intense in the country in at least a century, leaving a tragic toll of at least sixty human lives. The causes of the…
The decolonization that spanned across the 20th century dramatically reshaped our world, but what often escapes common knowledge about this period is that anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen did not only…
Since 2019, Kenyans from the Kipsigis and Talai people have sought reparative compensation for their evictions enforced by the British militaryacross decades of colonial rule in favor of white…
Reforming the country’s justice sector was one of the agreements of Guatemala’s 1996 Peace Accords, which ended one of the region’s longest-running internal conflicts. However, the country continues to be…
Trust between citizens and their states is crucial for resilience in the face of COVID-19 and the global challenges on the horizon. Ironically, the pandemic has magnified a particularly consequential…
On Monday, November 15, 2021 (N15), a Facebook group of more than 31,000 young Cuban artists and other critics of the Cuban government named Archipiélago (“Archipelago”) called for a “Civic…
Sudan’s non-violent pro-democracy movement has declared that it will continue to protest the recent coup until the military hands over power to a civilian government. While military leadership has strong…
