Understanding the Peace Processes in Colombian Society
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Bogotá, Colombia Trip Summary. The research conducted during our visit to Bogo...
Understanding and Reinterpreting Colombian Stereotypes
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Bogotá, Colombia Trip Summary. A number of stereotypes regarding Latin America...
The Underlying Ideology of the FARC
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Bogotá, Colombia Trip Summary. Learning more about the FARC’s underlying...
Military Capacity of the Fuerzas Revolucionarias Armadas de Colombia (FARC)
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Bogotá, Colombia Trip Summary. Starting in the mid-1960s, several leftis...
Bogotá, Colombia Trip Summary
Entitled “The Colombian Peace Process: A Human Rights Perspective,” our trip sought to grapple with the peace accords between the Colombian government of Juan M...
“The Disinherited”: Migration, Survival, and the Underclass in Tehran (1950-1980)
In early spring of 1979, after the exile of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and amidst the rule of the Provisional Government, Iranians from a diverse set of backgro...
Tribal Rugs: Weaving Modernity into Afghanistan
The complexity of Afghanistan’s carpets extends well beyond their appearance. Afghan tribes have been weaving in Central Asia for thousands of years, using thei...
Across the Border: Using Music to Bridge the US-Cuban Divide
Introduction While cultural interactions between the US and Cuba have taken place even during tense political times, they will inevitably increase in the ...
The Bharatiya Janata Party and the State of Consociational Rule in India
Power-sharing theory holds that democracy is possible in deeply divided societies but only if their type of democracy is consociational, that is, characterized ...
Facing the Facts and Translating to Action: The American Media and Government Responses to the Armenian versus the Darfur Genocides
The American media has long been tasked with the daunting duty of reckoning with evil and presenting it to a relatively naive public. Genocide—“the darkes...
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