(Hay una versión en español)

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime “recognizes the need to promote strong partnerships with civil society organizations in dealing with the complex issues of drug abuse and crime which undermine the fabric of society”. However, the UNODC itself admits that it is far from clear how to achieve such collaboration.

How can civil society organisations collaborate effectively with state agencies, on the one hand, and with diverse communities, on the other?

The challenges are even more acute in contexts of state corruption and societal violence. Assembling collaboration to address the issues may seem impossible in these contexts.

Our project builds on a previous project in Mexico led by CISRUL Director Trevor Stack with Salvador Maldonado, and a second one led by Jenny Pearce:

We paid some attention in those projects to how societal actors engage with institutions. Stack and Maldonado’s looked at local security councils set up to monitor police, while Pearce’s Human Security Agendas were aimed at institutions.

Yet in this current project, Stack, Maldonado and Pearce agreed to focus more centrally on how societal actors can transform how government works by collaborating more effectively with it. We look to identify principles for effective collaboration between state, civil society and communities in challenging contexts.

We are proceeding by:

  • extending the research to other Mexican contexts
  • stimulating experiments in collaboration, where there is little existing
  • incorporating leading academic and non-academic partners to the team.

You can find out more about our research in Mexico below

Eventos

Tanto en el Reino Unido como en México, el equipo del proyecto Activismo en regiones de violencia ha llevado a cabo una serie de eventos académicos y de participación pública,…

Publicaciones

Entre los resultados planeados del proyecto Activismo en Regiones de Violencia, nos comprometimos a: publicar 3 libros académicos: dos en español y uno en inglés participar en conferencias académicas, presentar…

El equipo

Investigadores Trevor Stack (Director de CISRUL, Universidad de Aberdeen) es el investigador principal de este proyecto. Es antropólogo y enseña en Estudios Hispánicos. Lleva realizando investigaciones en México desde 1992 y…