Groupes de Travail Régionaux
Les Groupes de Travail Régionaux sont les structures centrales de travail du Consortium Global. Ils s’organisent en groupes thématiques de travail et sont composés de praticiens, chercheurs, activistes et politiciens qui partagent un intérêt commun sur un sujet spécifique. Ils se réunissent pour créer des savoirs, pour se bénéficier de l’échange d’expériences pratiques dans leurs domaines et pour mettre en place de nouveaux agendas en matière de sécurité.
Chaque Groupe de Travail s’organise autour d’ateliers pratiques ainsi que du débat, de la réflexion et de la recherche afin de permettre la collaboration et l’analyse comparée de thématiques spécifiques en sécurité au niveau interrégional. On cherche, à travers ces Groupes de Travail, l’inclusion de nouveaux acteurs et de nouvelles perspectives.
Un des éléments centraux du travail est le développement de méthodologies participatives de recherche, telles que la « recherche-action ». Ce type de méthodologie rassemble autant les individus et les communautés que les agents actifs dans la réflexion, l’analyse et la création de connaissances. Cette méthodologie permet que le processus de recherche soit un outil de transformation de la réalité étudiée. Ainsi, les résultats et les recommandations déduites de ce type de recherche se fondent sur une évidence empirique et créent des opportunités de transformation pour ceux qui participent dans le processus.
Évènements
Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 12-13, 2011.
This workshop, sponsored by the governments of Chile and Switzerland, is being organized by the GCST and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The event will bring together 40 experts from the academic world and ONGs, as well as government officials from Latin-American and the Caribbean.
Download the workshop program from: http://www.securitytransformation.org/images/Montreux workshop.pdf
More information on the Montreux Document on Private Military and Security Companies at: http://www.securitytransformation.org/images/Montreux background.pdf
Download the Montreux Document from http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0996.pdf
ISDP Initiates Project on Organized Crime (Transnational Organized Crime )
11.03.10
ISDP Initiates a Project on Organized Crime and the Financial Crisis in the Baltic Sea Region.
Read the announcement on the ISDP website.
2nd Meeting of the Working Group on Transnational Organized Crime (Transnational Organized Crime )
09.15.10
The Working Group on Transnational Organized Crime of the GCST will hold on September 15-17 its second meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, co-hosted by UN-HABITAT. The aim is to present the working papers produced by the members of the WG within the GCST. Furthermore, there will be a round table to discuss public policies on organized crime with the aim of obtaining tangible results.
2nd meeting of the Working Group on Regional Security (Regional Security)
08.15.10
The Working Group on Regional Security from Above and Below will hold its second meeting on 15 August 2010 at Buenos Aires, Argentina, in order to present and disseminate the papers from the mapping exercise of perspectives on regional security and to plan the second year of the research project.
International Summit on Violence Prevention in Latin America (Crime Prevention)
04.15.10
With the aim of exchanging experiences in the field of insecurity reduction in the cities, the city of Bogotá and the IDB hold the international summit titled “Ideas, leadership and innovation on violence prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean
More information here (in Spanish)
Book Understanding Political Violence now available in Spanish (Transnational Organized Crime )
12.31.09
Vincenzo Ruggiero’s “Understanding Political Violence” (published in English by Open University Press in 2006) is now available in Spanish, with the title: “La violencia política: un análisis criminológico”, published by Anthropos (Barcelona).
This book analyses institutional and anti-institutional political violence, the former as violence from above, the latter as violence from below. An excursus in sociological and criminological thought highlights how the different theoretical schools have discussed this particular form of collective behaviour. From classicism to positivism, from functionalism to conflict theory, through to most recent theoretical contribution, the book also analyses the two extreme forms of political violence, namely terrorism and war.
Publisher's website
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