Conveners: Gareth A. Jones (Geography, LSE) & Dennis Rodgers (CSRC, LSE)

For details of how to participate, please contact Olga Jiménez, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8871, Fax: +44 (0)20 7862 8886, olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Participation in the workshop is FREE

Thursday, 26 May 2005
Friday, 27 May 2005

Thursday, 26 May 2005: Old Theatre, London School of Economics

13:00-13:30 
Registration

13:30-14:15 
Welcome (James Dunkerley, ISA; Jo Beall, LSE) 
Introduction to the workshop (Dennis Rodgers & Gareth Jones, LSE)

14:15-15:30 
Wagner’s Testimony: A survivor of the Candelária massacre speaks out 

15:45-17:15 
Panel: Policy interventions and activities
Presenters: Damian Platt (Amnesty International, London, UK), Silvia Reyes (Juconi, Guayaquil, Ecuador), Lainie Reisman (Inter-American Coalition for the Prevention of Violence, PAHO, USA), Marie Wernham (Consortium for Street Children, London, UK)

Break

18:00-19:30 
Keynote speech (Alistair Berkley Memorial Lecture) 
Speaker: Paulo Sergio Pinheiro (UN independent expert on Children and Violence)
Respondent: Dr Caroline Moser (Brookings Institution)

19:45-21:00 
Drinks Reception, The Atrium (Old Building)
Opening of Donna De Cesare photographic exhibition by LSE Deputy Director Henrietta Moore

Friday, 27 May 2005: Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London

09:30-11:00 
Panel 1: Researching Youth Violence
Presenters: Dominique Behague (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – on Brazil), Mo Hume (University of Liverpool – on El Salvador), Ailsa Winton (Queen Mary, University of London – on Guatemala)
Chair: Cathy McIlwaine (Queen Mary, University of London)

11:00-11:30 
Coffee

11:30-13:00 
Panel 2: Youth Gangs
Presenters: Donna De Cesare (University of Texas, Austin – on Guatemala and Mexico), Paula Miraglia (Universidade de São Paulo – on Brazil), Cordula Strocka (University of Oxford – on Peru)
Chair: Dennis Rodgers (LSE)

13:00-14:00 
Lunch

14:00-15:30 
Panel 3: Street Children
Presenters: Dwight Ordoñez (AYNI, Lima – on Peru), Irene Rizzini and Udi Butler (CIESPI, Rio de Janeiro, and Goldsmith’s College, London – on Brazil), Caitlin Scott (Save the Children-UK, London – on Colombia)
Chair: Gareth Jones (LSE)

15:30-16:00 
Tea

16:00-17:30 
Panel 4: Juvenile Justice
Presenters: Luke Dowdney (Viva Rio – on Brazil); Gabriel Kessler (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires – on Argentina), Jose Luis Rocha (UCA, Managua – on Nicaragua)
Chair: Jenny Kuper (CSP, LSE)

17:30-18:00 
Concluding Discussion: Thinking Holistically about Youth Violence (Chairs: Dennis Rodgers, Gareth Jones)