Co-Constructing Human Security in Mexico

The issue is more complex, with multiple insecurities and types of violence interconnected in a context of growing criminal economies, corruption, and impunity.

Towards a Human Security Agenda for Mexico — Professor Jenny Pearce and Dr Alexandra Abello Colak discuss the process of creating human-security agendas with communities in Acapulco, Apatzingán, Guadalupe, and Tijuana.

The alarming increase levels of violence and insecurity in Mexico is one of the most important challenges facing the new government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. These co-constructed human-security agendas seek to contribute to the national debate on how to address this challenge.

They draw on key findings and recommendations following a two-year research process (2016-2018) carried out in four Mexican cities with severe, albeit distinct, levels of violence: Acapulco (Guerrero), Apatzingán (Michoacán), Guadalupe (Nuevo León) and Tijuana (Baja California).

Publication available in Spanish and English:

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Seguridad humana y violencia crónica en México: Nuevas lecturas y propuestas desde abajo

Kloppe-Santamaría, G. & Abello Colak, A. (eds., 2019)

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Human Security and Chronic Violence in Mexico: New Perspectives and Proposals from Below

Kloppe-Santamaría, G. & Abello Colak, A. (eds., 2019)

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Construcción de seguridad humana en México | Diálogos desde la frontera #229

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte - El Colef, 5 February 2020, featuring Alexandra Abello Colak

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Violencia crónica y seguridad humana en México: presentación y diálogo

Livestream recording of a presentation of the book at El Colef Tijuana on 28 October 2019

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Co-Construyendo Seguridad Humana en México: Una metodologia y plan de acción de las comunidades hacia el Estado

Also available in English

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Agenda de Seguridad Humana de Apatzingán, Michoacán, Mexico

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Agenda de Seguridad Humana para la colonia Nuevo Almaguer, Guadalupe, México

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Agenda de Seguridad Humana para la colonia Sánchez Taboada, Tijuana

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Agenda Nacional: hacia una agenda de seguridad humana para México: por una seguridad que no reproduzca las violencias

Available in English.

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Resumen Ejecutivo: hacia una agenda de seguridad humana para México: por una seguridad que no reproduzca las violencias

Available in English.

The alarming increase in violence and insecurity levels is one of the most important challenges facing the new Mexican government led by Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

This documentary follows Professor Jenny Pearce and Dr Alexandra Abello-Colak, the rsearchers and the pracademics as they work with the community to produce the Human Security Agenda’s between 2016-18 in Acapulco (Guerrero), Apatzingán (Michoacán), Guadalupe (Nuevo León) and Tijuana (Baja California).

This project is the result of collaboration among scholars that share a strong commitment with security and violence issues in Latin America. It was based at the Latin American and Caribbean Centre at LSE and at ITAM - Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and CIDE -Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas both in Mexico City.

Our international research team builds on a methodology, developed by the Observatory of Human Security in Medellin with Prof. Pearce and Dr Abello-Colak, which has been used since 2011 to work with community researchers in Medellin with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Tegucigalpa with the support of OXFAM and TROCAIRE.

Funding for this project came from the Newton Fund Initiative and Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT)

Co-Constructing Human Security in Mexico

A Methodology and Action Plan from Communities to the State

Events and videos

Human Security Agendas

Co-creating Human Security Documentary

Funding and Collaboration