Youth Violence in Latin America
Juvenile Justice
Friday, 27 May 2005
16.00-17.30, Senate House, Chancellor's Hall
Luke Dowdney, 'From traficantes to pandilleros: contextual comparisons of children and youth in organised armed violence in Latin America'
Gabriel Kessler, 'Crime, Work and
Juvenile Justice in Buenos Aires'
José Luis Rocha, 'The political economy of the Nicaraguan legal and institutional framework for dealing with youth violence'
Jenny Kuper (discussant)
Luke Dowdney
Luke Dowdney has a masters degree in social anthropology from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) for which he wrote his dissertation on violence and the lives of Brazilian
street children. Luke currently works for Viva Rio where he co-ordinates the Children and Youth in Organised Armed Violence (COAV) programme which includes a daily updated information service on child involvement in armed violence, local and international research projects and community based projects such as
Fight for Peace (Luta Pela Paz)
which offers alternative lifestyles to children and adolescents affected by or involved in crime, armed violence or drug trafficking.
Luke is the author of Children of the Drug Trade: a case study of children in organised armed violence that focuses on the role of minors in Rio de Janeiro’s drug factions, and is currently coordinating
a comparative research programme investigating the armed role of children and youth in armed groups in 10 non-war countries that will be published in April 2005. In June of 2004 Luke was awarded an MBE for ‘services to the prevention of child exploitation and violence in Brazil’.
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Gabriel Kessler
Gabriel Kessler has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales de Paris (EHESS). He is a researcher for CONICET, a professor at the
Universidad Nacional de General
Sarmiento, and a member of the Ph.D. and Masters’ in Public Policy professorial staff at the
Universidad de San Andrés. In 2003 he was named to the Simón Bolivar Chair in the Université de Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is the author of
Sociología del delito amateur (2004) and La experiencia escolar fragmentada. Estudiantes y docentes en la escuela media en Buenos Aires (2002); co-author of
La nueva pobreza en la Argentina (1995), and has co-edited Violencias, delitos y justicias en la Argentina (2002).
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José Luis Rocha
José Luis Rocha is a researcher at Universidad Centroamericana’s Research and Development Institute Nitlapán in Managua, Nicaragua, where he coordinates the Social and Economic Policies team. He is member of the editorial boards of Envío and Encuentro, UCA’s academic journals. He has conducted research on youth gangs in Managua, local governments, natural disaster preparedness, coffee crisis, and migration. Currently he coordinates Regional Migration Analysis and Policies in Central America research project for the Jesuit Service for Migrants in Central America.
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Jenny Kuper
Jenny Kuper
has worked for many years as a lawyer concerned with issues involving children and young people. Initially qualified as a UK solicitor, she worked primarily for the Children's Legal Centre, a national child advocacy organisation then based in London. After obtaining a PhD in international law for her work on children in armed conflict, she published
International Law Concerning Child Civilians in Armed Conflict (OUP, 1997). A second work, on military training regarding children in armed conflict,
was published by Martinus Nijhoff at the start of 2005. Since 1999 Jenny Kuper has been employed as a Research Fellow at LSE, and is currently doing research on the use of law as a tool in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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