Citizen Insecurity in Latin America: a Regional Challenge

Following the highly successful conference "Violence, Drugs and Governance: Mexican Security in Comparative Perspective", the Program on Poverty and Governance is partnering with the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to host a new conference on violence, crime and citizen insecurity in Latin America. The greater objectives of this two day conference are to:

• Deepen the critical analysis of insecurity in Latin America through an interdisciplinary dialogue and the creation of methodological tools
• Create an interdisciplinary network of academics focused on the study and comprehension of insecurity in the Western Hemisphere
• Share the findings and recommendations from this network with key actors and decision makers of the region

• Develop a program of annual Forum-Conferences on citizen security in Latin America, with a high degree of academic analysis, and open to dialogue with government officials and authorities

• Launch a new collaborative database for crime and violence research among the networks of scholars

Presenters will speak on four thematic areas:

1. Citizen Insecurity Tipping Points
2. Costs and Impacts of Insecurity
3. Drug Trafficking and Drug Regimes
4. Interventions and Best Practices to Decrease Violence

The conference will be held at ITAM's Santa Teresa campus in Mexico City on March 11-12.

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