Cyberspace: The Wild West?

By: Adolfo Arreola (26/01/2021).

In this article, the author analyzes the difficulties that exist in cyberspace, due to its own characteristics and the lack of a comprehensive international regulation for the attribution of cyber attacks, as well as to respond adequately to attempts to damage or destroy communication systems, command and control by wicked actors.

Morococha Population Resettlement: Problem or Possibility?

By: Alicia González (24/01/2021).

In this article, the author describes the process of population resettlement in the city of Morococha, in the province of Yauli – Junín, and analyzes the problems involved in moving the inhabitants to a new city, taking into account the social, economic and community dimensions. Likewise, the potential improvement of the population’s living conditions is analyzed, as well as the creation of a sense of belonging in a new area. All this, within the framework of disaster risk management, and under the support of the corrective management process carried out by the National Center for the Estimation, Prevention and Reduction of Disaster Risk (CENEPRED). The article concludes with a balance of the successes and mistakes made in the resettlement process, both by the residents and by the mining company, eight years after it began.

Westlessness: The world is less and less western

Por: Francisco José Dacoba Cerviño (24/01/2020).

The speeches of the main world leaders in the last editions of the Munich Security Conference have revealed many and profound discrepancies when assessing the world situation. Discrepancies not only between Western representatives and those of other powers, which is still understandable, but also between leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. This trend has been substantiated in the 2020 edition, which has been convened under the disturbing slogan of “Westlessness, de-Westernization.”