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Abstract [en]: Brazil’s Lava Jato scandal is more than just a mere corruption scandal involving alleged kickbacks at oil giant Petrobras. It has snowballed into a social crisis; an economic crisis as the scandal’s impact on investment drags Brazil deeper into stagflation; and a political crisis for President Dilma Rousseff. The present article will examine how closely Brazil’s problems are interwoven...
Abstract [en]: On the Importance of Family in Civil Society All over the world, families continue to be driving forces for the development of each individual person. Families, however, cannot exist without a surrounding civil society which gains familiar influence by prohibiting familiar violence, by demanding school attendance and by offering nursing homes for elderly care. Such developments serve for the...
Abstract [en]: Since decades Colombia has been embroiled in a spiral of violence from leftist guerilla, righist paramilitary organizations and state security forces. The everday violence has been led in a dramatic fragile statehood. Drug trafficking, repressive measures against civil society, violence and insecurity, weaken political institutions and a high degree of corruption dominated for decades the public view to...
Abstract [en]: More than 70% of the Brazilian population lives in cities, the centres of Brazilian society. Cities are the reflection of society, of processes and structures of social circumstances. The socio-spatial separation is remarkable: On the one hand, there are the often discussed poor districts (‘favelas’), on the other hand, the gated communities of the rich. The difference between...
