The end of the Cold War did not bring about an end to violence in Central America. Today, so-called non-political violence continues to worsen. Academics and public policymakers are frequently influenced by the assumption that there is a causal relationship between the political violence of the 1980s and the non-political violence of today. By looking at the cases of El Salvador and Honduras, this working paper seeks to systematize existing claims about the causal relationship between past and present violence into two approaches. Our research shows that high levels of prolonged political violence, along with an abundance of firearms, can lead to high levels of prolonged non-political violence but not in the ways most often cited in existin...
This study analyzes economic and governmental factors in political violence, using both a cross-nati...
Peace Agreements were signed in Guatemala on December 29, 1996. This was a significant milestone in ...
In order to understand the social violence currently raging in El Salvador - and its impact on healt...
Violence is a complex multicausal problem that is part ofour everyday life. Its expressions affect s...
in El Salvador came to an end, having claimed 75,000 victims. While the peace making is documented a...
ilustraciones, mapasEsta tesis argumenta que la violencia en el posconflicto se explica por la conju...
This paper examines detailed records from the civil conflict in Guatemala between 1977 and 1986. It ...
This article conceptualizes post-conflict violence by developing its definition, analyzing the facto...
This thesis contends that while the Guatemalan state has had formal peace since the signing of the P...
This chapter exposes the limits of El Salvador’s ‘peace’. In particular, it analyses the development...
La siguiente investigación estudia los patrones de violencia contra los civiles en Colombia (1997- ...
El Salvador, a country about the same size as the U.S’s New Jersey and a population of over six mill...
The countries of Central America are high up on the list of nations with the highest crime rates in ...
Violence in Honduras is particularly important because it is one of the countries in the Central Ame...
In this article, the phenomenon of gangs or maras in El Salvador in the light of the legacies and th...
This study analyzes economic and governmental factors in political violence, using both a cross-nati...
Peace Agreements were signed in Guatemala on December 29, 1996. This was a significant milestone in ...
In order to understand the social violence currently raging in El Salvador - and its impact on healt...
Violence is a complex multicausal problem that is part ofour everyday life. Its expressions affect s...
in El Salvador came to an end, having claimed 75,000 victims. While the peace making is documented a...
ilustraciones, mapasEsta tesis argumenta que la violencia en el posconflicto se explica por la conju...
This paper examines detailed records from the civil conflict in Guatemala between 1977 and 1986. It ...
This article conceptualizes post-conflict violence by developing its definition, analyzing the facto...
This thesis contends that while the Guatemalan state has had formal peace since the signing of the P...
This chapter exposes the limits of El Salvador’s ‘peace’. In particular, it analyses the development...
La siguiente investigación estudia los patrones de violencia contra los civiles en Colombia (1997- ...
El Salvador, a country about the same size as the U.S’s New Jersey and a population of over six mill...
The countries of Central America are high up on the list of nations with the highest crime rates in ...
Violence in Honduras is particularly important because it is one of the countries in the Central Ame...
In this article, the phenomenon of gangs or maras in El Salvador in the light of the legacies and th...
This study analyzes economic and governmental factors in political violence, using both a cross-nati...
Peace Agreements were signed in Guatemala on December 29, 1996. This was a significant milestone in ...
In order to understand the social violence currently raging in El Salvador - and its impact on healt...