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Risks, Violence, Security and Peace in Latin America

40 Years of the Latin American Council of Peace Research (CLAIP)

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Úrsula Oswald Spring

    1. Centre Regional for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

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  2. Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald

    1. Centre Regional for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

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  • Analyses social and environmental conflicts and peace processes in Latin America
  • Addresses security, drug war, extractivism, development, human rights, peace education and peacebuilding
  • Focuses on human rights and environmental risks, indigenous and marginal people
  • Proposes sustainable development, just peace and peacebuilding as a constructive responses in the most violent and most biodiverse region
  • Offers alternative perspectives of global networks, and scientific and youth organisations

Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 24)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Latin American Council for Peace Research (CLAIP) on Its 40th Anniversary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introductory Remarks. CLAIP in the Face of the Challenges of Peace and Security in the 21st Century

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald
      Pages 2-15

    3. History of Forty Years of Peace Activities Within the Latin American Peace Research Council (CLAIP)

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 16-33

  3. Struggles for Peace and Against War in Its Global Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 34-35
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    2. War and Peace in the 21st Century

      • Pablo González Casanova
      Pages 36-51

    3. Peace and Security in Latin America: New Challenges, New Directions

      • Francisco Rojas Aravena
      Pages 52-75

    4. Global State Terrorism and Asymmetric Wars

      • Gilberto López y Rivas
      Pages 76-84

    5. Strategic Concepts for Training in Integrated Defence of Peace and Security in Cyberspace

      • Luis Holder, Julio Cárdenas
      Pages 85-97

  4. Socio-environmental Conflicts and Sustainable, Equal, Diverse and Nonviolent Peace

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. ‘Like an Army in Enemy Territory’. Epistemic Violence in Megaextractivist Expansion

      • Omar Arach
      Pages 100-111

    3. Socio-environmental Risks and Conflicts in Colombia and Mexico

      • Nathaly Burbano Muñoz, Malely Linares Sánchez, Fabiola Nava León
      Pages 112-127

    4. Climate Change as a New Challenge to Human Security

      • Francisco Rubén Sandoval Vázquez
      Pages 129-142

    5. The 2016 US Presidential Elections and Beyond – Peace Education for Nonviolent Resistance

      • Patrick T. Hiller
      Pages 143-151

  5. New Challenges for Peace and Security in Latin America

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-154
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    2. Human Rights, Peace and Security in Mexico and in La Montaña, Guerrero

      • Abel Barrera Hernández
      Pages 154-173

    3. Violence, Free Trade Agreements, Corporations and Human Rights

      • Miguel Concha Malo
      Pages 174-182

    4. Peace and Nonviolence. Enough of ‘Just Wars’! A Universal Catholic Initiative for a ‘Just Peace’

      • Pietro Ameglio
      Pages 183-193

    5. The Relationship Between Impunity and Inequality Globally and in Mexico

      • Juan Antonio Le Clercq
      Pages 195-205

    6. Reconceptualised Security in Mexico

      • Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald
      Pages 207-223
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This book analyses the war against drugs, violence in streets, schools and families, and mining conflicts in Latin America. It examines the nonviolent negotiations, human rights, peacebuilding and education, explores security in cyberspace and proposes to overcome xenophobia, white supremacy, sexism, and homophobia, where social inequality increases injustice and violence. During the past 40 years of the Latin American Council for Peace Research (CLAIP) regional conditions have worsened. Environmental justice was crucial in the recent peace process in Colombia, but also in other countries, where indigenous people are losing their livelihood and identity. Since the end of the cold war, capitalism aggravated the life conditions of poor people. The neoliberal dismantling of the State reduced their rights and wellbeing in favour of enterprises. Youth are not only the most exposed to violence, but represent also the future for a different management of human relations and nature.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre Regional for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Úrsula Oswald Spring, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald

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