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In the nine months since Colombia’s peace deal with the FARC guerrillas, the country has begun the hard process of healing. For rural areas emerging from five decades of violence, that means reviving pockmarked forests and farmland, too. Juan Francisco Salazar visited the community groups that are restoring and defending Colombia’s biodiverse Caribbean coast, creating a new environmental movement that sees conservation as the core of peace.
We’ve also got reports on African politicians who seek medical help abroad, the global Black Blocs, China’s changing foreign policy and more today from The Conversation Global.
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The tropical dry forest characteristic of Colombia’s Montes de Maria region has all but disappeared.
Felipe Villegas, Instituto Humboldt
Juan Francisco Salazar, Western Sydney University
As Colombia seeks to rebuild after fifty years of armed conflict, an emerging conservationist movement is linking lasting peace to healthy habitats.
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Arts + Culture
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Tom Harper, University of Surrey
New film has broken China's box office record while projecting soft power for Beijing.
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Jeff Good, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
To understand the full scale of the world's linguistic diversity, we should be thinking about languages and how speakers relate to them.
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Health + Medicine
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Sujatha Raman, University of Nottingham; Warren Pearce, University of Sheffield
Promising scientific consensus is a perilous principle on which to found meaningful engagement between experts and the public.
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Politics + Society
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Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, University of Bath
Health care systems in many African countries are very poor. Instead of fixing them, many African leaders seek medical attention abroad incurring huge costs and risks to their nations.
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Francis Dupuis-Déri, Université du Québec à Montréal
Black Blocs sprung from an anarchist movement in western Germany. Anti-capitalism and anti-government, the original Black Blocs marched against nuclear energy and neo-Nazis.
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Science + Technology
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Daniel Mansfield, UNSW; Norman Wildberger, UNSW
A 3,700-year old Babylonian clay tablet reveals an ancient method of constructing right-angled triangles that makes it the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table.
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