“Transitional Justice and The Role of Legitimacy in Informal Institutional Change” by Aaron Alfredo Acosta & Nelson Camilo Sánchez

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Capitolio Nacional Seat of the Congress. Bogotá, Colombia. 2008. Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 Transitional Justice in Colombia In the past ten years, under the flag of transitional justice, Colombia has sought to implement a series of measures to confront the legacy of the conflict regarding property and land tenancy. In 2011, the government enacted…

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“Religious Racism: An Overlooked Form of Anti-Black Prejudice” by Danielle Boaz

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Image of Religious Ceremony/ by Andrè Mellagi/ Flickr / This article is part of our “Race, Religion, and Law” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Last August, DECRADI (a specialized police force in Rio de Janeiro that handles crimes of religious and racial intolerance) announced that since the beginning of…

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