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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. […]

Democracy apart, there is no other idea so often extinguished, despised, rejected as irredeemably utopian and reborn again and yet again as the deep human need for justice. Even so, less noble human characteristics such as greed, envy, arrogance, intolerance and aggressiveness, combined with our tendency to avoid responsibility seem […]

Is conflict a part of human nature? An interesting question indeed. This short film illustrates what happens when you take individuals from opposite sides of the pack mentality and place them in a neutral environment. There is no denying the human race is obsessed with conflict. Our history as a […]

  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 […]