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THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN "NORTHERN TRIANGLE"
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S0044748X0000616-6-1
Publication type
Article
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Published
Authors
ELIZAVETA Gromoglasova 
Edition
Issue 12
Pages
43-54
Abstract
The paper studies two interrelated phenomena: urban gang violence and forced displacement in the Central American 'Northern Triangle' which includes Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Empirical data analysis allows to suggest, that gangs in the 'Northern Triangle' overgrew in their scale the definitional framework of ordinary criminal violence and got political significance. Gangs pose a significant challenge for overall human security in the 'Northern Triangle' countries. Urban violence forced ordinary people to flee their homes and seek asylum in other regions of their own country or beyond its borders. What is going on in the 'Northern Triangle' can be defined as a 'complex humanitarian emergency'. Its complexity is determined by the fact that humanitarian crisis evolves despite the absence of violent conflicts on the territory of the three 'Northern Triangle' states. Peoples fleeing violence face discrimination in their own countries and risks of non-recognition as refugees in the neighboring states including Mexico as well as in the US...
Keywords
responsibility to protect, urban violence, organized crime, internally displaced persons, Central America
Date of publication
01.12.2017
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