Despite sustained improvements in its social and economic indicators over the past several
decades and its rich stock of natural and human resources, Colombia remains plagued by …

In 1996, the Government of Guatemala and the guerrilla army known as the Guatemalan
National Revolutionary Unity (URNG), signed the final Peace Accords ending both the …

This paper examines how social exclusion contributes to violence in communities
throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Residents in socially excluded communities …

This paper emphasizes the importance of conducting participatory research on violence and
describes the range of participatory urban appraisal tools that can be used to do so. This …

Colombia is one of South America's oldest and most enduring democracies, a middle-
income country rich in natural and human resources. With sustained improvements in its …

Over the past decade, accelerating rates of violence and crime in Latin American cities have
transformed the problem of individual criminal pathology into a serious development …

Violence 1, whether it is understood as individual acts of aggression, structural inequality, or
direct acts of coercion by the state, always encompasses injustice. In Central America, the …

Venezuela has recently experienced soaring rates of violent crime, in particular homicides;
Caracas presently ranks among the cities with highest homicide rates globally. This article …

Considering the high prevalence of domestic and social violence and their linkages, the
focus of this analysis is the broader subject of violence rather than the narrower one of …

In this review of violence in Latin America, I have attempted to organize the region's
scholarly literature around the most influential and leading research issues. Three main …