Postwar societies are high-risk contexts for youth violence. Nevertheless, not all postwar societies are equally … of reconstruction after war’s end are identified as major intervening variables that explain the variations in youth … violence in as well as across the case studies. …

This paper analyzes the role of religion with regard to the violence experienced during the past 20 years in Côte d …’Ivoire. It seeks to explain the differences in the level of violence over time by focusing on religion as an identity marker and … reaction to the violence and politicization, the religious elites founded an interreligious organization in the 1990s, and were …

This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and … international contextual factors. The case study, which focuses on explaining the increase in violence since the second half of the … the key contextual conditions responsible for violence, the results underline the basic relevance of cultural cleavages …

Crime, violence, and insecurity are perceived as society’s biggest problems in contemporary Costa Rica. This degree of …

In Central America, legislation aiming to reduce violence and crime has become an important topic in the security … trade in and consumption of drugs on the one hand, and gender-related violence on the other. It shows how the content and … the wording of legal texts contribute to the social construction of stereotyped offenders, such as youth gang members …

It has become common to state that youth gangs and organized crime have seized Central America. For theories on … contemporary Central American violence, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua present important test cases, demonstrating the need … to differentiate the diagnosis. First, national discourses on violence differ from country to country, with varying …

Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs, drug traffic, and … social segregation. Focusing on Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, the paper analyzes the social perception of violence … in the three countries, the paper points out how elite arguments on violence and crime are translated into everyday life …