Over the last two decades, the idea that citizen engagement and participation can contribute
to improved governance and development outcomes has been mainstreamed in …

Two key themes of this special issue are: how violence challenges democracy and how
democratic politics might, over time, diminish violence. This paper explores how violence (s) …

Although the international aid and security sectors exhibit an expanding appetite for peace-
support operations in the twenty-first century, the effectiveness of such interventions is …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to help in understanding the relationship between the
construction of the male identity and how social violence may be “reproduced”(using the …

Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on
building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often …

Young People and Everyday Peace is grounded in the stories of young people who live in
Los Altos de Cazucá, an informal peri-urban community in Soacha, to the south of …

This article considers the dilemmas and challenges of conducting fieldwork with youth gang
members in Medellín, Colombia. It draws upon the author's experiences to develop the …

This article analyses how criminal governance creates blockages that prevent peace
formation in Latin America. Two blockages emerge where criminal governance prevails …

When and why do citizens living amid criminal violence pour into the streets to demand
peace and justice, regardless of the risks that protesting in such a context may entail? While …

This article explores the potential contribution to a better understanding and practice of
urban security from participatory research methodologies with communities most affected by …