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The unexpected consequences of the peace

While the National Government denied that the murder of social leaders was a systematic phenomenon and the media published shallow information, a group of academics from the universities of Rosario and Columbia (United States) was assigned the task to study the evidence. The result was as follows: The reason was the change in balance of power in the areas left by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). Following this “line of thought,” they found other facts.

Observa jep: the academy’s contribution to understanding the special jurisdiction for peace

Three academic institutions combined knowledge to monitor and analyze decisions of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP, for its acronym in Spanish), from a legal perspective. One of its goals is to present to different audiences, specialized or not, the operation of this Court, in a didactic way, through virtual channels.

Colombian companies increase management reports to be more competitive

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reports have been increasing in Latin America. These reports allow the construction of management indicators of companies. Colombia witnessed the highest growth in reports, with an increase of 500 percent between 2010 and 2015. This was established by a study by Professors Rafael Alejandro Piñeros, from the School of Business Administration of the Universidad del Rosario, and Juan Pablo Acevedo, from the Universidad de La Sabana.

The legislation to regulate electronic cigarettes does not wait

Although, in Colombia, two bills address this problem, there is still a long way to go to stop this high-prevalence phenomenon. Two professors from the Faculty of Economics of Universidad del Rosario follow up the discussions that occur in Colombia and the world. The bottom line is that the framework that exists for the consumption and sale of tobacco must be considered.
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