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Callie Ward and Joe Wager discuss the situation at the US-Mexico border with Julia Neusner, a Legal Fellow in Refugee Protection at Human Rights First. Julia, a Stanford alumna who has organized several trips to the US-Mexico border with Stanford students, reports on her recent experiences there and contextualizes immigration policy such as Title 42 within a larger history of the border.

Show Notes

1. The Report on Title 42: https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/failure-protect-biden-administration-continues-illegal-trump-policy-block-and-expel-asylum
2. Human Rights First: https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/
3. Haitian Bridge Alliance: https://haitianbridge.org/
4. Al Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.org/

The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

Pamgaea by Kevin MacLeod

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Callie Ward and Joe Wager sit down with Diana Guzmán Rodríguez to discuss the 2016 Colombian Final Peace Agreement. Diana contextualizes the situation, discusses the multiple facets of the agreement, and lays out challenges to its implementation. As a massively complex negotiation, the Agreement encompasses myriad human-rights issues and demands that we understand it within a global context.

A few options for further engagement:

1. Robert Karl’s 2017 A Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520293939/forgotten-peace 
2. The Kroc Institute’s “barometer” on the Colombian peace process: https://peaceaccords.nd.edu/barometer 
3. A link to Dejusticia’s website (in English): https://www.dejusticia.org/en  
4. A link to the Institute for Integrated Transitions website: https://ifit-transitions.org/
5. A link to reports, briefings, and updates on Colombia from the International Crisis Group: https://www.crisisgroup.org/latin-america-caribbean/andes/colombia
6. A monument to the peace process by renowned Colombian artist Doris Salcedo and an article in the New York Times that contextualizes it within the implementation of the Peace Accords: https://www.museonacional.gov.co/micrositios1/Fragmentos/index.html; https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/arts/design/colombia-farc-peace-monument.html  
7. Two academic articles: a) “Land, justice, and memory: challenges for peace in Colombia” by Catherine C. LeGrand et al.: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08263663.2017.1378381; b) “‘Territorial Peace’: The Emergence of a Concept in Colombia’s Peace Negotiations” by Heriberto Cairo et al.: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2018.1425110 

The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice. 

Pamgaea by Kevin MacLeod

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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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