Organized Crime, Fear and Peacebuilding in Mexico

• Main Author: Meschoulam, Mauricio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Public policy.; Municipal government.; Peace.; Regionalism.; Latin American Politics.; Public Policy.; Urban Politics.; Conflict Studies.

The book focuses on the psychosocial effects that organized crime related violence has produced in Mexico. It connects one of the major worries of our times - terrorism - with the conditions of peacelessness that prevail in Mexico. Specifically, the project explores the role played by fear as a peac...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Chapter 1: Introduction
• 2. Chapter 2: Terrorism and Fear: Their Impact on Social and Democratic Development
• 3. Chapter 3: Terror and Fear: The Mexican Case
• 4. Chapter 4: Violence and Its Psychosocial Effects in Mexico
• 5. Chapter 5: Social Construction of Fear: The Role of Experience, Observation and Conversation
• 6. Chapter 6: Social Construction of Fear: The Role of the Media
• 7. Chapter 7: Public Policy Proposals and General Recommendations
• 8. Chapter 8: Summary and Conclusions.