Despite emerging study of business initiatives that attempt to support local peace and
development, we still have significant knowledge gaps on their effectiveness and efficiency …

Since the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights
Defenders in 1998, there has been considerable effort to recognise and protect the right of …

Scholars are increasingly re-theorizing territory beyond the nation-state given Indigenous
and Afro-descendant groups' demands for 'territory'as they confront land grabbing in Latin …

The Studies of the Americas Series includes country specific, crossdisciplinary and
comparative research on the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada …

While illicit crops like the coca leaf can be vehicles of conflict and income for armed groups
across the Global South, this article reveals that coca has alternative uses based on its …

This book assesses the construction, operation and effects of the international protection
regime for human rights defenders, which has evolved significantly over the last twenty …

Achieving peace is often thought about in terms of military operations or state negotiations.
Yet it also happens at the grassroots level, where communities envision and create peace …

Despite the institution of multicultural policies and pluriethnic governments across Latin
America, racist violence against Indigenous and Afro-descendant groups persists. Yet the …

Ethnic recognition and collective titling have since the second half of the 20th century been
promoted as ways of compensating for historical injustices and countering the destructive …

Scholars and communities have long argued that conservation-induced injustices worsen in
armed conflict contexts, where historical warfare processes, state formation, and …