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By Laurie Smolenski

The fourth Positive Peace Conference, co-hosted by the Institute for Economics & Peace and the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies, was held at Stanford University on October 29. The conference opened with…

Reminder of Ancestral Land

Today and each day, CLAS acknowledges that we are in the land and territory of the Ohlone original peoples. Specific tribes and their locations are difficult to pinpoint, due to the nomadic character of the…

By Ignacio Carvajal

Ignacio Carvajal is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas. Professor Carvajal specializes in interdisciplinary research on Mesoamerican Literatures, Languages, and…

This past Thursday, September 26, 2019, marked the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico. Amidst the pain and confusion of their absence, their…

Introductory Remarks by Dr. Bridget Algee-Hewitt (for the Community Vigil To Remember The Missing Migrants Along The U.S.-México Border event)

Let me open this Vigil on the Day of the Disappeared by welcoming you all here: siempre serás…