We are a group of young scholars from different universities and nationalities across the globe conducting research related to security, organised crime and violence.
Please click on our individual profiles below for more information about our research projects and biographies:
| Alejandra Otamendi University of Buenos Aires |
Those Who Demand “Mano Dura”: Public Punitiveness in Buenos Aires (2000 – 2010) | Argentina |
| Alexandra Abello Colak University of Bradford |
Security Provision in Impoverished Urban Communities and the Construction of Social Orders: The Case of Medellin (2002 – 2012) | Colombia |
| Caroline Delgado University of Manchester |
Uncovering Human Insecurities: A study of the impacts of interventions aimed at restoring security in the intertwined armed conflict and drug trade in Colombia | Colombia |
| Elizabeth Kerr University of Bradford |
Forced Displacement in Latin America: Exploring Issues of Citizenship in the Case of Colombia’s Internally Displaced | Colombia |
| Jenna Murray de López University of Manchester |
Woman, Body, Political Economy: Anthropology of Pregnancy in Chiapas, Mexico | Mexico |
| Jorrit Kamminga Universidad de Valencia |
Towards an international economic security regime for alternative development in illicit drug producing countries. Exploring international support for alternative livelihoods in Colombia through case studies from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Meta and Tumaco | Colombia |
| Juan Carlos Ruíz University of Essex |
Violence in the Outskirts of the City, Santiago de Chile | Chile |
| Kari Mariska Pries University of Glasgow |
On Order and Good Government in Violent Democracies: National and International Policy Approaches to Citizen Security in Central America | El Salvador & Guatemala |
| Natalia Cervantes University of Manchester |
Urban violence and crime prevention through community-led development planning | Mexico |
| Nicholas Pope SOAS, University of London |
The Urban ‘Wild West’: A political economy of paramilitaries in Rio de Janeiro (2001-2017) | Brazil |
| Susan Hoppert-Flaemig University of Bradford |
A Salvadoran Turnaround? The FMLN’s Response to Citizen Security Needs | El Salvador |
| Verena Brähler University College London |
Inequality of Security: Violent Pluralism and Territory in Six Neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Brazil |
If you would like to join our group and have the opportunity to post regularly on our blog, please send us an email: researchingsecurity@gmail.com.
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