Let's talk Latin America
Let's talk Latin America
BristoLatino politics editor Alfred Davies reports from The Road to Peace: Lessons from Colombia, a two-part interdisciplinary event hosted by the University of Bristol’s Global Insecurities Centre on 31 January 2019. Host Laura Hankin was joined by panellists Dr Andrei Gómez-Suarez and Gwen Burnyeat of UCL, who carefully unpicked the complexities of ending war and building […]
Marion CHUNIAUD is a Parisienne currently living and studying in Montreal. Besides the artistic community work she does with the aims of social transformation and social cohesion, she is a researcher in International and Intercultural Communications. Marion spent six months in Colombia researching the role of art in social cohesion, female empowerment and peacebuilding, in […]
BristoLatino Art editor Helen Brown talks us through José Sokoloff’s TED talk about his Christmas advertising strategies that convinced FARC guerrillas to demobilise. ‘Prisoners of their own organisation’ In Colombia, armed conflict with the FARC has claimed 220,000 lives and displaced 5,700,000 people. The FARC have financed the war through kidnappings, forced ‘taxes’ for those […]
Currently interning at Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo, Rebecca Wilson writes about the shock of the Colombian ‘No’ vote to the historic peace deal from the ground I woke up tired, but excited. And hopeful. At 3am on a disturbingly quiet Saturday night (the ‘ley seca’ came into play at 6pm, meaning no one could buy […]
