Research by country: GUATEMALA

Research Team | ND: Josephine Lechartre, Camilo Nieto-Matiz, Guillermo Trejo

• Varieties of Violence. Develop an inventory of all sources of quantitative data for a wide variety of types of violent events and forms of victimization. We seek to collaborate with Guatemalan NGOs, think tanks, and universities in developing more accurate estimates of patterns of violence across time and space.
   
• Criminal Structures. Use of in-depth information produced in the criminal prosecution and trials of members of criminal structures to identify network connections and explain modus operandi.
   
• Transitional Justice in Contexts of Ongoing Large-Scale Criminal Violence. Provide an in-depth evaluation of how the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) dismantled multiple criminal networks, contributing to a major reduction in the country’s homicide rate.
  • Trejo, Guillermo and Camilo Nieto-Matiz. “Containing Large-Scale Criminal Violence through Internationalized Prosecution: How the CICIG Contributed to the Reduction of Guatemala’s Murder Rate”. (2019)
     
• Confronting Crime: Comparing Strategies of Militarized Policing vs. Strategies Based on Intelligence and Judicial Action. Compare Mexico’s strategy of confronting drug cartels through military action vs. Guatemala’s strategy under the CICIG of dismantling the cartels through intelligence and judicial action. 
  • Trejo, Guillermo and Camilo Nieto-Matiz. “Containing Large-Scale Criminal Violence through Internationalized Prosecution: How the CICIG Contributed to the Reduction of Guatemala’s Murder Rate”. (2019)