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Abstract: the amount of people murdered in El Salvador from 1992 until 2013 has long surpassed the number of civilians killed during the Civil War (1981-1992) and the political repression era (1975-1980). Even more so, both public indifference and our whole media consumption are designed to profit from violence: tabloid-like […]

You can live in relative peace in El Salvador, if you have the resources to afford it. There’s a direct relation between how poor people are, and how vulnerable they are in front of the country’s violence and insecurity.

A minority, the same portion of the population with de higher income, can buy “peace”, in the form of private security services, bodyguards, armored vehicles or extra secured houses.

But the rest, the people with lower income, have to deal with robbery, violations, extortions, and other types of violence. 

Abstract: The periods of transition after wars can be terrible, altough they already fall into the category of “peace”. A good example of this are the years after the end of World War II were  an estimated 2.5 millions Germans perished under different circumstances after the allied forces entered Germany. […]

  Abstract: The government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC guerrilla in Colombia started dialogues for peace, after a war that has meant more than 40 years of bloodshed for Colombian citizens. Ex president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who helped Santos winning the elections, is nowadays the main opponent […]

  Abstract: War and peace are two opposite, yet complementary aspects of the complex human nature. One simply cannot exist without the other. There are many ways to understand peace, a very narrow conception of peace is peace as the absence of war, or the absence of violent armed confrontation. […]