trade in and consumption of drugs on the one hand, and gender-related violence on the other. It shows how the content and …In Central America, legislation aiming to reduce violence and crime has become an important topic in the security …

the mara paradigm, the perception of grand corruption, and gender-based violence tied to cross-national, national or sub … 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 …

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 …

been transformed into a battleground for social violence — that is, on the belief that an alarming “crime wave” is …

level of violence, an outlier among the oil countries as a whole. It applies a newly elaborated “context approach” that … with a moderate increase in internal violence in Venezuela are subsequently analyzed, in the second part of the paper, from …, and corruption. On the other hand, oil has triggered violence—primarily through socioeconomic causal mechanisms (central …

explores the methodological challenge of an alternative approach to Central American violence(s). How can we collect … qualitative data that help address the social construction of (in)security? The research project “Public Spaces and Violence in …-discourses on violence? Why is it crucial to keep a research diary? What is a “failed” or a “good” interview? This article argues …

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 …