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    The Kellogg Institute for International Studies, part of the University of Notre Dame’s new Keough School of Global Affairs, is an interdisciplinary community of scholars that promotes research, provides educational opportunities, and builds linkages related to democracy and human development.

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Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico?

2017
  Guillermo Trejo, Sandra Ley Gutiérrez (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)
Completed
Journal Article
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Criminal Governance and Ecosystems of Local Violence Legacies of Violence and Impunity Varieties of Violence

Breaking State Impunity in Post-Authoritarian Regimes

2018
  Guillermo Trejo, Juan Guillermo Albarracín Dierolf (University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)), Lucia Tiscornia (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Completed
Journal Article
    Transitional Justice Mechanisms Transitional Justice and Criminal Violence in New Democracies

High-Profile Criminal Violence

2019
  Guillermo Trejo, Sandra Ley Gutiérrez (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)
Completed
Journal Article
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Criminal Governance and Ecosystems of Local Violence Varieties of Violence

The Unintended Consequences of Democratic Reforms

  Camilo Nieto-Matiz (Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University), Natán Skigin (Harvard University)
Current
Journal Article
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Criminal Structures Varieties of Violence

Predicting Large-Scale Violence in Criminal Wars

  Natán Skigin (Harvard University)
Current
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Criminal Structures Varieties of Violence

Votes, Drugs, and Violence

2020
  Guillermo Trejo, Sandra Ley Gutiérrez (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)
Current
Book
    Transitional Justice Mechanisms Criminal Governance and Ecosystems of Local Violence Legacies of Violence and Impunity Varieties of Violence

Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance

2019
  Guillermo Trejo, Sandra Ley Gutiérrez (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)
Completed
Journal Article
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Criminal Governance and Ecosystems of Local Violence

Containing Large-Scale Criminal Violence through Internationalized Prosecution

2019
  Guillermo Trejo, Camilo Nieto-Matiz (Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University)
Completed
Journal Article
    Transitional Justice Mechanisms Transitional Justice in Contexts of Ongoing Large-Scale Criminal Violence

Predicting Large-Scale Violence in Criminal Wars

  Natán Skigin (Harvard University)
Current
Journal Article
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Criminal Structures Varieties of Violence

Colombia en 2018

2019
  Isabel Güiza-Gómez
Journal Article
    Transitional Justice and Criminal Violence in Post-conflict Societies

Pacigerancia

2019
  Isabel Güiza-Gómez
Completed
Journal Article
    Transitional Justice and Criminal Violence in Post-conflict Societies

Colombia’s Fuerza Pública (Security Forces) in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace

2020
  Isabel Güiza-Gómez
Completed
Book Chapter
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Transitional Justice and Criminal Violence in Post-conflict Societies

Dismantling from Below

  Camilo Nieto-Matiz (Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University)
Current
Journal Article
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Criminal Structures

When Peripheries Become Important

  Camilo Nieto-Matiz (Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University)
Current
Journal Article
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Criminal Governance and Ecosystems of Local Violence

Democracy All the Way Down

  Jacob Turner
Journal Article
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Criminal Governance and Ecosystems of Local Violence

Guerrillas and Authoritarians

  Jacob Turner
Journal Article
    Drivers of Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations Legacies of Violence and Impunity

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