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  1. 1. How democratic backsliding impacts security and development in El Salvador

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Joel Claesson; Mohammed Alizadeh; [2024]
    Keywords : Security and Development nexus; Democratic backsliding; Democracy; Development;

    Abstract : The security and development nexus outlines the interdependence between security and development, this theoretical framework has been used in peacebuilding efforts around the world and the idea of the concept is that both security and development reinforce each other, more security is expected to create more development and vice versa. If a society is riddled with poverty and economic despair, insecurity will follow as a result, and likewise an economy will not be able to grow and flourish if a secure environment is not applied. READ MORE

  2. 2. Negotiating Peace: Analyzing Rebel Group Compliance with International Humanitarian Law

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Nicole Kouwenhoven; [2024]
    Keywords : rebel compliance; IHL; commitment problem; negotiation; non-violent conflict behavior; international humanitarian law; costly signaling; NPFL; El Salvador; FMLN; Liberia;

    Abstract : The negotiation process of a peace agreement is an uncertain period where adversaries can have a difficult time credibly guaranteeing their commitment to an approaching agreement. However, violence is often ceased before a peace agreement is signed, demonstrating their importance for understanding non-violent and violent behavior by warring actors. READ MORE

  3. 3. Graffiti, Space & Safety : Exploring El Salvadoran Youth’s Conceptions and Feelings of Safety Through Participatory Documentary

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Christine Bedenis; [2023]
    Keywords : community safety; youth; El Salvador; graffiti; public sphere; representation; violence prevention; gang violence; participatory documentary;

    Abstract : This project investigates how youth in San Salvador, El Salvador define and participate in the co-creation of safety in their neighborhoods. For many years, El Salvador topped the rankings of most dangerous countries because of street gang violence and homicides. READ MORE

  4. 4. Navigating Criminal Violence and Aid : Strategies to Negotiate Humantiarian Access in Guatemala

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Anastasia Simes Martinez; [2023]
    Keywords : Negotiation Strategies; Humanitarian Access; Criminal Violence; Criminal Armed Groups; Guatemala;

    Abstract : Due to the high rates of criminal violence and the alternative authority of Criminal Armed Groups (CAGs) in Guatemala humanitarian access faces multiple barriers in regions under CAG control, often leaving vulnerable populations without necessary humanitarian services. With limited institutional and conceptual frameworks to support negotiating for humanitarian access in these criminally violent contexts the international humanitarian system favors avoiding these contexts altogether to minimize the risk of their operations, but with the trends of violence increasing in the region not addressing the issue of negotiating for humanitarian spaces in these contexts only will result in crises worsening. READ MORE

  5. 5. The Illumination of Money : An Ethnography of Bitcoin in El Salvador

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Anton Angwald; [2023]
    Keywords : infrastructure; payment; bitcoin; financial inclusion; el salvador; future imaginaries; speculation; infrastruktur; betalning; bitcoin; finans; el salvador; framtidsstudier; spekulation; pengar;

    Abstract : Money can be understood as a disembedding mechanism, detaching social relations from a spatiotemporal context. However, different infrastructural instantiations of money make visible–and invisible–different qualities of money. READ MORE