1. Go Long: Six Actions to Structurally Address Organized Violence
- Author:
- J. Brian Atwood and Erwin van Veen
- Publication Date:
- 12-2012
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- International Peace Institute
- Abstract:
- Contemporary organized violence has evolved beyond the now rare interstate conflicts that marked the first half of the twentieth century, and even beyond the intrastate conflicts of the 1990s that tended to feature a government and a rebel group. Organized violence is a broad notion that refers to the use or threatened use of force by groups to inflict injury, death, or psychosocialharm. In this brief we focus on forms of organized violence that have a significant international impact and are most likely to trigger an international response as a result.
- Topic:
- Political Violence, Crime, Development, Health, Peace Studies, United Nations, War, and Narcotics Trafficking