Utilizing annotated primary scientific literature as an integrated pedagogical tool could enable more widespread use of primary scientific literature in undergraduate science classrooms with minimal disruption to existing syllabi. Louis-Alexandre Berg, Justice and Conflict Specialist, Justice Reform Practice Group, The World Bank | Room I 8-300 or Adobe Connect*Ĭhristina Biebesheimer, Chief Counsel, Justice Reform Practice Group, The World Bank Violent Crime, Youth Gangs, and Local Prevention Practices Presented by Bonni Stachowiak, Director of Teaching Excellence and Digital Pedagogy, Vanguard University and host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.Annotated primary scientific literature is a teaching and learning resource that provides scaffolding for undergraduate students acculturating to the authentic scientific practice of obtaining and evaluating information through the medium of primary scientific literature. Hiding Violence to Deal With the State: Criminal Pacts in El Salvador and MedellinĬrime, Violence and Community-Based Prevention in Honduras: Examining Local Solutions to Complex Challenges Rodrigo Serrano-Berthet, Lead Social Development Specialist, LCSSO, The World Bank Jose Miguel Cruz, Director of Research, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International Universityīernard Harborne, Lead Social Development Specialist, SDV, The World Bank Violent crime has emerged as a growing development challenge. In Central America, national homicide rates have risen as high as 90 per 100,000 inhabitants, nearly twenty times the rate in the United States, imposing costs of up to 10% of GDP. #Fiu adobe connect driversĪs governments struggle to confront this challenge, new insights are emerging regarding the drivers of violent crime, as well as local initiatives that have had surprising effects in reducing it. We present the results from two recent studies that draw from qualitative and ethnographic research to explore the nexus of organized crime, youth gangs and socio-economic conditions that have contributed to rising crime in Central America, and examine evidence regarding efforts by communities, municipal and national governments to prevent it. A study of community-based crime prevention in Honduras compares similar neighborhoods with varying crime rates to examine why some areas are more violent than others. It explores the changing dynamics of crime from community perspectives, and identifies the practices that communities have adopted to prevent violence, which enable local collective responses and effective utilization of government resources. The study, called "Crime, Violence and Community-based Prevention in Honduras", was co-authored by Berg and Carranza, and funded with support from a BNPP grant. - A study on the gang truce in El Salvador seeks to explain how it contributed to a reduction in homicides by over 50% in a single year.Through a comparison of criminal pacts in El Salvador and Medellin, Colombia, it examines the conditions, including the types of government interventions and the characteristics of criminal organizations, which enable such pacts to succeed.īoth studies contribute to a deeper understanding of the nature and causes of violent crime, and identify the possibilities, tradeoffs and tensions involved in efforts to prevent it. Louis-Alexandre Berg is a Justice and Conflict Specialist in the World Bank’s Justice Reform Unit. He has conducted field research on local dynamics of crime and violence and on the politics of security and justice reform in conflict-affected countries. He previously served as a Rule of Law Adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development, an adviser to the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Security Sector Governance Program and a consultant to the UNDP. in Government from Georgetown University, an M.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a B.A. Marlon Carranza is a PhD Student in cultural anthropology at the University of Florida. He was previously the Coordinator of the University Institute of Public Opinion (IUDOP) at the Central American University Jose Simeon Canas (UCA) in El Salvador. He has conducted research on youth violence and gangs in Central America and is the co-author of Maras y Pandillas en Centroamerica, 2002-2006, as well as several book chapters and reports.
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