Summary: A Discussion with Alejandro Eder, Director of Colombia’s Agency for Reintegration
Eder discussed the agency's work to reintegrate former combatants and Colombia's peacebuilding process.
Viewpoints: What Can Be Done to Increase the Number of Women on Boards?
With so much focus on women becoming CEOs and joining boards, why isn’t it happening at a faster rate? AS/COA asked six senior-level women to share their perspectives.
Women at WEF: An Underrepresented Force
Fewer than one in five attendees at Davos this week were women, reinforcing the need...
Summary: Security in the Northern Triangle
A December 12 AS/COA panel discussed the role of the private sector in security and violence prevention in Central America’s Northern Triangle.
Everything You’ve Heard about the Middle Class Is Wrong
"Whether its growth is being hailed as a major advance for Latin America or its alleged decline in the developed world is taken as a sign of the global North’s impending fall, the middle class has assumed almost totemic status in popular discussions," writes AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini for CNN-GPS. "The reality, though, is more complex."
Steps toward Same-Sex Marriage in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, the U.S., and Uruguay
Congressional votes and court decisions this month are bringing several countries closer to marriage rights for LGBT couples.