The Wrong Side of the Street: Examining Urban Violence and Resilience in Managua, Nicaragua Through a Spatial Lens
Gordon, Rachel H
2013
- Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Urban violence is a growing concern among policymakers, development practitioners, governments, and--most importantly--citizens the world over. While the past several decades have seen decreases in inter-state conflicts, rising chronic or "daily" violence threatens to ... read moreundermine possibilities for peace and stability in both post-conflict and historically more stable states. Such violence manifests in a variety of ways from petty crimes by street children to narco-warfare between organized criminal groups and law enforcement to the sexual and gender-based violence that pervades both the public and private spheres but is rarely acknowledged as a category of urban violence worthy of the same policy attention and resources. This thesis based on desk research and six weeks of fieldwork in Managua Nicaragua explores the concepts and experiences of urban violence in one of the cities of the Global South that has supposedly fared better against the trends. It examines citizens' experiences of violence and their strategies of coping and resilience in order to better understand how Managua has remained relatively safer than similar cities particularly its neighbors in El Salvador Honduras and Guatemala (currently the world's most violent region) and what its prospects might be for the future.read less
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