2024 Edition
The Julio Cotler Program was created in 2024, as part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Obreal’s founding, as a tribute to Professor Julio Cotler (1932–2019). A central intellectual figure during Obreal’s early years, his belief in the transformative power of higher education to address social inequalities serves as the inspiration for this initiative. The program aims to promote analysis and dialogue on the main challenges facing democracies in Latin America.
It is presented as a dynamic platform that seeks to promote emerging critical Latin American voices to rethink the structures of contemporary democracies, with the aim of encouraging academic production by young people from Latin America and the Caribbean.
2024 Edition Results
This first edition of the Julio Cotler Program received hundreds of applications on Education, Social Inequality, and the Strengthening of Democracy.
After a rigorous selection process and a dynamic intellectual exchange workshop, a jury of experts selected the 4 most outstanding articles. The authors of the selected articles received a financial prize of 2,000 euros, and their work will be published online with open access.
Selected Articles in the 2024 Edition
Political Instability in Contemporary Peru: Presidential Survivals and Collapses
By Manuel Ernesto Aguirre Cahua
Progress and Setbacks in the Quality and Access to Higher Education in Peru over the Last 30 Years
By Carlos Cuadra
The De-institutionalizing Circle of Democracy in Peru: Structures of Political Participation Conditioned by Rational Power Decisions
By Franco Rueda
Migration Crisis and the Border: An Analysis of the Migrant in Biden’s and Trump’s Discourses
By Génesis Oriana Peserga