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John Bonilla-Aranzales

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John Bonilla-Aranzales

John Bonilla-Aranzales is a doctoral candidate in political science at the Harry S Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is a research intern at the FW de Klerk Foundation.

Members of the ANC give testimony in Cape Town about human rights abuses committed during apartheid. (File photograph by Gallo Images/ Oryx Media Archive).
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

Truth commissions are lessons for societies in transition

South Africa and Colombia attempted to deal with a violent past through telling truths about human rights violations – even if both processes faltered one some measures

  • John Bonilla-Aranzales
6 min read
A demonstrator waves a Colombian flag that reads ‘I say no to Petro’s tax reform’ during the first anti-government protest against left-wing president Gustavo Petro and his initiative on a tax reform, in Bogota, Colombia, September 26, 2022. (Photo by: Chepa Beltran/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
COLOMBIA

Much to learn from the political transitions in South Africa and Colombia

Social cohesion and reconciliation cannot be signed into being with new Constitutions but need to be worked on

  • John Bonilla-Aranzales
8 min read