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Michael Weintraub

Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes

...versity, and Senior Researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). His research agenda focuses on crime and political violence in Latin America, particularly in Colombia, Central America, and Mexico. He is also interested in historical legacies of violence and how they affect contemporary outcomes. To study these and other topics he uses a combination of primarily experimental and quasi-experime...

Posted on 08 Jan 2020
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Angélica Durán-Martínez

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

...RF-SSRC) and the Open Society Foundation through the Drugs, Security, and Democracy fellowship. She is the author of “The Politics of Drug Violence: Criminals, Cops, and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico” (Oxford University Press, 2018), winner of the best book prize from the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime, and of the Peter Katzenstein book award for best first book in i...

Posted on 08 Jan 2020
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Luigi Achilli

Marie Curie Research Fellow, European University Institute

...es on transnational crime, irregular migration and forced displacement. His ongoing Marie Curie research – MAPS – project pushes these interests further toward a comparative analysis of the US-Mexico border and the Mediterranean human smuggling routes. This has culminated with the publication of several articles and other influential work on the topic. His currently co-editing the new edition of ...

Posted on 08 Jan 2020

#GIDisappearances, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Finding a voice amid the silence

... Casa Refugio is a shelter in an old neighbourhood of Mexico City, set among avenues named after cities. It is home to one of the memorials dedicated to Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, who was murdered in Culiacán, Sinaloa, in 2017. The shelter was created ...

Posted on 09 Oct 2019

Author(s): Siria Gastelum Felix

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Diana Siller

CEO/Technical Expert, Environmental Justice and Human Rights Organisation (JADE), Mexico

...lombia, Bolivia and Peru while working for the Alliance for Responsible Mining Organization. She has also been part of diverse UN projects and programs aiming at fostering environmental governance in Mexico. Diana holds an MSc. in Environment and Sustainable Development from University College London and a Master in Environmental Management from the University of Amsterdam. She constantly applies partic...

Posted on 03 Oct 2019

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Supporting asylum seekers with local NGO Dhia in Ciudad Juárez

... The Resilience Fund works with local NGO DHIA in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to support asylum seekers and build their resilience against organized crime. #GIResilience El Fondo Resilience trabaja con la ONG DHIA en Ciudad Juárez, México para apoyar a quienes buscan as...

Posted on 13 Sep 2019
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Juan Carlos Lara

President, Point5 Family Office and ESG-LAB

...stments that will positively impact society has led to a portion of his recent activities being pro bono, which, in turn, has led to valuable experiences—for example, working with the Government of Mexico to teach about 3,000 residents about sustainability and impact. And as a byproduct, some of the SME's these residents work with are using the ESG advice he developed through his organization. He...

Posted on 22 Aug 2019

Global Initiative

Borderline Dissent

...d US$3 000 per migrant in the early 2000s to around $10 000 today. Secondly, and more significantly, the arrests of these 19 US military personnel expose the growth of official corruption on the US–Mexico border, a phenomenon that the Global Initiative forecasted would unfold over a year ago in a comprehensive report on global border management vulnerabilities. These media reports, however, mi...

Posted on 19 Aug 2019

Author(s): David Danelo

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Corina Giacomello

Researcher and Consultant, University of Chiapas, Institute of Judicial Research

...Corina is a researcher based in Mexico and since 2007 she has been working on the intersection of gender, drug offenses and incarceration, conducting comparative research on Latin America, with field work mainly in Mexican female prisons....

Posted on 16 Aug 2019
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Alfredo Yuncoza

President, Security College US

...es, USA. Alfredo is currently the President of the Security College US and member of several international organizations in the area of security. His articles are published in various media in Spain, Mexico, the United States and Venezuela. Based in Venezuela. ...

Posted on 15 Jul 2019
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Billy Kyte

Research, campaigns and strategy consultant on natural resource governance, business and human rights, environment

... Africa documenting abuses in conflict areas. He has also published reports from personal field research across Latin America, Africa and SE Asia. Billy has lived and worked in Myanmar, Argentina and Mexico. He speaks English, Spanish, French and basic Portuguese....

Posted on 15 Jul 2019
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Alexandra Abello Colak

Research Fellow, Latin American and Caribbean Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science

... Abello Colak, A. and Kloppe-Santamaria, G. (Eds) Human Security and Chronic Violence in Mexico: New Perspectives and Proposals from Below. ITAM & MAPorrúa. Abello Colak, A 2019, ‘Untrusted democracies and failing security strategies: crises that refocus democratic governance in Lati...

Posted on 14 Jul 2019
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