Leonardo Goi

Leonardo Goi is a Bogota-based political analyst specialised in Colombia's conflict. He has worked for CERAC (Centro de Recursos para el Análisis de Conflictos), FIP (Fundación Ideas Para la Paz) and is currently a researcher for InSight Crime.

Colombia’s peace requires the disarmament of gender-fear

A vote cast to purposely reject the gender framework of the peace treaty with the FARC is a vote premised on ignorance and fear. Español

By Leonardo Goi

/ 18 Oct 2016

Colombia’s peace requires the disarmament of gender-fear

A vote cast to purposely reject the gender framework of the peace treaty with the FARC is a vote premised on ignorance and fear. Español

By Leonardo Goi

/ 18 Oct 2016

La paz en Colombia tiene que desarmar el miedo al género

Un voto emitido con el propósito de rechazar explícitamente el marco de referencia del género en el acuerdo de paz con las FARC, es un voto motivado por la ignorancia y el miedo. English

por Leonardo Goi

/ 18 Oct 2016

Colombia: the year of peace?

The unilateral ceasefire signed by the FARC last December is a historic and positive step towards a permanent peace, but questions remain. From openDemocracy.

By Leonardo Goi and Jorge A. Restrepo

/ 29 Jan 2015

Italy's two-front war against xenophobia and sexism

Attacks on Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s first black minister, reveal interlocked legacies of xenophobia and sexism that continue to manifest in Italian public life.

By Leonardo Goi

/ 3 Aug 2013

Italy's inconvenient women: in praise of Laura Boldrini and Cecile Kyenge

As the renewed threats against politician Cecile Kyenge show, the problem of the abuse of women in Italy's public sphere persists. This cannot be dismissed as just a debate about censorship. Italy’s gender question is a wound left unhealed.

By Leonardo Goi

/ 21 May 2013

No country for wise men

From PM Monti's technocracy to President Napolitano's ten 'wise men', Italy is turning to technical expertise to rescue it from political lethargy. But the rise (and fall) of Italy's technocrats only hides the chronic frictions between the country's political class and its educated – and forgotten

By Leonardo Goi

/ 11 Apr 2013

Lega Nord's last temptation: anti-politics in the time of Grillo

The rise of Grillo's 5 Star Movement marks Italy's ongoing disaffection towards its political caste. In the early 1990s, the Northern League gave voice to a similar feeling. But times have changed. Surfing on a wave of anti-politics with no sound political programme may be a dangerous strategy.

By Leonardo Goi

/ 28 Mar 2013