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In a public lecture at CEU’s School of Public Policy on February 16, Lisa Wedeen explored how the proliferation of information sources and acceleration in the circulation of news has contributed to greater uncertainty, rather than relieving it. During her presentation, Wedeen, who is the Mary R.

“Prisons [in Brazil] are actually incubators of violence – and of lots of other problems too,” declared Fiona Macaulay in a presentation at CEU’s School of Public Policy on February 2. Macaulay, who is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Bradford, has been studying criminal justice reform and human rights since the mid-1980s. She explained that the number of prisoners has risen dramatically in Latin America in the last 30 years.