Series: Latin American Security Challenges Amidst Authoritarian Populism

co-sponsored with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Harvard Center for International Development

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12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA, Room S216 and on Zoom

About the Event

This hybrid seminar, five sessions in October, November and December, intends to analyze potential policy alternatives to deal more assertively with the challenges of security and justice provision in Latin America.

Assertiveness in two senses:

  1. As effectiveness to the citizens’ legitimate demands of protection against violence, impunity, and uncertainty
  2. As feasibility to offer rule of law solutions able to outcompete populist authoritarian alternatives.

Explore the contributions of scholarly research and practitioner experiences in developing a set of policies and proposals that can effectively deal with violence, impunity, and uncertainty, and at the same time outcompete populist candidates’ mano dura policies.

Claudia Lopez HernandezModerated by Claudia López Hernández, 2024 Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow; Mayor of Bogotá 2020-2023

 

 

 

Panel 1: Tackling Crime and Justice Failures: Strategies for Effective Policing and Justice Provision
Panel 2: Organized Crime and Rents: Between Militarization, Negotiation and Regulation
Panel 3: Navigating Populism: The Future of Democratic Politics in Latin America Amidst Insecurity and Inequality
Panel 4:  Tackling State Capacity Amidst Insecurity and Inequality Challenges
Panel 5: Latin America's Democratic Governance Challenges

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