Really glad to be part of this conference organized by the Université de Montreal. I will be presenting the paper entitled: Building the “Pacification”: Strategic Villages to Deal with Rebel Territories in Latin America
Here I attached the conference description and the program:
DESCRIPTION
For the past twenty years, problem-oriented policing reforms have been designed and implemented in Latin America to reduce continually growing crime and violence rates. These measures aim to tackle the problem of insecurity by preventing (instead of repressing) and by addressing the underlying causes of criminality (rather than solving one crime at a time). Thus, this approach seems to fall within the principles of the rule of law, particularly because the respect of human rights and the involvement of the community are at their core.
This 2-day event proposes to discuss and assess the impact of two decades of this public security enforcement model shift, specifically in relation to the rule of law in Latin America.
November 8th at 4pm:
Keynote address – Graham Denyer Willis
November 9th from 10am to 7pm:
- 10:00 – 12:00 Panel 1 – Public security policies, governance and the rule of law in Latin America
Chair: Manuel Balán, McGill University
Discussant: Tina Hilgers, Concordia University
Graham Denyer Willis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Title: Law as Axiom
Mary Fran T. Malone, University of New Hampshire, College of Liberal Arts, Durham
Title: Learning to Protect and Serve in Latin America: Building Relationships between Police and the Communities They Serve
Michelle Bonner, University of Victoria, Victoria
Title : What Democratic Policing is and is not?
Michel Fournier, McGill University, Montréal
Title: Police Reform & Antihaitianismo in the Dominican Republic
- 1:00 – 3:00 pm Panel 2 – Problem-oriented policing reforms as a response to violence and “insecurity” ( I )
Chair: Cynthia Milton, Université de Montréal
Discussant: Massimiliano Mulone, Université de Montréal
Mark Ungar, CUNY, New York
Title: The Fight for Problem-Oriented Policing: The Political and Institutional Challenge of durable reform
Yanilda Maria Gonzalez, University of Chicago, Chicago
Title: Compromise or Cooptation? How Problem-oriented Policing May Thwart Structural Police Reform
Annabelle Dias Felix, Université de Montréal, Montréal
Title: Opening the “Black Box” of Problem-oriented Policing Programs
- 3:30 – 5:30pm Panel 3 – Problem-oriented policing reforms as a response to violence and “insecurity” ( II )
Chair: Françoise Montambeault, Université de Montréal
Discussant: Julian Durazo-Hermann, UQÀM
Arturo Alvarado, ColMex, Mexico City
Title:
Jean Daudelin, Carleton University, Ottawa
Title: Policing and the Limits of Criminal Governance. Selective Law Enforcement and Drug Violence in Recife, Brazil
Pamela Colombo, EHESS – IRIS, Paris
Title: Building the “Pacification”: Strategic Villages to Deal with Rebel Territories in Latin America
- 5:45pm Cocktail