Crime, violence, and insecurity are perceived as society’s biggest problems in contemporary Costa Rica. This degree of priority is especially remarkable because the country has always been considered the peaceful exception in the violent Central American region. In this paper I analyze four cornerstones of the nonviolent national self-perception in the 1940s and 1980s as the fundamental basis for the current talk of crime: the civil war, the abolition of the military, the proclamation of neutrality, and the peace plan for Central America and the subsequent granting of the Nobel Peace Prize. The result of the analysis is the determination that these historical cornerstones were not publicly discussed as expressions of the nonviolent identity...
Controversy continues to surround the issue of militarization in Costa Rica. On one side, claims are...
Costa Rica is a small country located in Central America, characterized by having one of the most st...
The following article employs an interdisciplinary approach to understanding some of the current par...
Huhn S. Contested Cornerstones of Nonviolent National Self-Perception in Costa Rica: A Historical Ap...
Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Ric...
Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs, dru...
The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvad...
The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that crime rates have increas...
The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that crime rates have increas...
It has become common to state that youth gangs and organized crime have seized Central America. For ...
The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvad...
crime, violence, and (in)security constitute extensively debated phenomena. They are object of const...
Huhn S. A History of Nonviolence? The Social Construction of Costa Rican Peaceful Identity. Social I...
Huhn S. Discourses on violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua: Social Perceptions in Every...
Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs, dru...
Controversy continues to surround the issue of militarization in Costa Rica. On one side, claims are...
Costa Rica is a small country located in Central America, characterized by having one of the most st...
The following article employs an interdisciplinary approach to understanding some of the current par...
Huhn S. Contested Cornerstones of Nonviolent National Self-Perception in Costa Rica: A Historical Ap...
Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Ric...
Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs, dru...
The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvad...
The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that crime rates have increas...
The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that crime rates have increas...
It has become common to state that youth gangs and organized crime have seized Central America. For ...
The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvad...
crime, violence, and (in)security constitute extensively debated phenomena. They are object of const...
Huhn S. A History of Nonviolence? The Social Construction of Costa Rican Peaceful Identity. Social I...
Huhn S. Discourses on violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua: Social Perceptions in Every...
Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs, dru...
Controversy continues to surround the issue of militarization in Costa Rica. On one side, claims are...
Costa Rica is a small country located in Central America, characterized by having one of the most st...
The following article employs an interdisciplinary approach to understanding some of the current par...