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Peace in Colombia?
This could so easily have been the best news story in a year when the world seems especially fraught with conflict and misery. The two main signatories of a historic agreement to end the longest war in the western hemisphere, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londoño, were even being tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize.*
Then came the result of the plebiscite on the peace accord – and the devastating realization that 50.2 per cent of Colombian voters had ticked the ‘NO’ box. Our Big Story for this month looks at what happens now to Colombia’s tortuous peace process – and finds reason for hope.
We also pick over two subjects that are in and out of the news with some regularity. The first is the question of a universal basic income – usually seen as ‘a good thing’ on the Left. But is there a destructive agenda at work behind its championing by sections of the Right? And then there’s PrEP, the medication that could drastically cut HIV transmission. Should it be readily available and publicly funded? And for whom?
There’s much more besides – a frontline report from Burma’s drug crisis, the views of Dutch physicians who perform euthanasia, and a fascinating exploration of why commercial competition almost always does a disservice to technical innovation. Lively thinking in sober prose. n
Vanessa Baird and dinyar godrej for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org
* Santos has since won the award, for his efforts.
This month’s contributors include:
Amy Hall is a freelance journalist and editor interested in social and environmental justice, from the international to the local. She is based in Brighton on the south coast of Britain.
Nick Dowson is a writer from Newcastle and has campaigned on social and environmental issues, most recently getting involved in the campaign for a fully public National Health Service. He has a blog at NickDowson.net and can be followed on Twitter @nickmdowson.
Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik is a journalist and campaigner covering human rights, ecology and migration.
Tatiana Garavito is a migrant rights activist and the former director of IRMO and Latin American Women Rights Services, two human rights organizations supporting the Latin American community in the UK. Awarded Young Migrant of the Year in 2014, she currently works for HOPE Not Hate as the national organizer for communities of colour, migrants and refugees.
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