Post-conflict in Colombia (2). Beyond the money

March in Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain. Flickr. Some rights reserved. It is often thought that the contribution that companies can make to peace-building is limited to their economic capacity. Accordingly, efforts to find out how they can link to peace initiatives tend to focus on their financial contribution to cover the costs of post-conflict, developing …

Political processes in Brazil: marginal or central?

In the midst of the current Brazilian political crisis, we ask how the margins can acquire a new centrality in crafting future alternatives in a moment where existing economic and democratic models seem to be failing us. This latest episode of Talk Real, shot in São Paulo in March 2016, saw the participation of Giuseppe …

Major League Baseball’s Ambassador For Inclusion Is Reshaping Big League Locker Rooms

Billy Bean is devoted to to baseball. For nearly 10 years, Bean played outfielder for the Tigers, Dodgers, and Padres, and in 1999 he became the second Major League Baseball player to come out of the closet, and the first to do so publicly, in an interview with the Miami Herald. In 2014, Bean returned …

You Might Think Not Taking Your Medicine Is Harmless—But It’s Costing Us Billions

When was the last time you stopped taking a prescription early because you were feeling better? What about the time the doctor wrote you a prescription you didn’t think you needed, so you never filled it? Or maybe sometimes, in the middle of a hectic morning, you just forget to take your medicine. It’s a …

A Film That’s Brutally Honest About What Your 20s Are Like

Look back at the 2008 recession: Economic anxiety hummed under the surface of every social interaction. Estranged from the workforce, young college graduates became alienated and mired in uncertainty. This is the frequency at which Heidi Saman’s debut feature film, Namour, buzzes. The movie, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year and …

The ‘SYRIZA experience’: lessons and adaptations

Alexis Tsipras. Wikimedia. CC. The impact of the strategic defeat of last year is still very strongly shaping various reactions within the Greek left. Some people seem content with superficial explanations of what happened and return to habitual ways of thinking and acting; others sense the strategic depth of the defeat and turn inwards to …