CIAO DATE: 09/2012
August 2012
Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre
This policy brief proposes the concept of “chronic violence” to characterise the crisis of escalating social violence that currently affects about one-quarter of the world’s population. Based on an extensive analysis of literature on Latin America, the it advances six propositions to aid policymakers and other key stakeholders to recognise this significant – but largely ignored – phenomenon and to shift to a more productive approach that takes into account both its diverse drivers and its complex social consequences.
Resource link: "Chronic violence": toward a new approach to 21st-century violence [PDF] - 88K