|  | | CHILDREN OF THE DRUG TRADE | |  | Written by Fight for Peace’s founder, Luke Dowdney, Children of the Drug Trade: a case study of organised armed violence in Rio de Janeiro, was based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with armed child and youth drug faction workers in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. This study looks at both the history of child involvement in the city’s drug factions since their establishment in the 1970s, as well as interviewing child drug faction employees within their working environments.
The book is now available in English, Spanish and Portuguese editions. |
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| | | NEITHER WAR NOR PEACE | | | From the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the townships of Cape Town; from the inner-city communities of Kingston, Jamaica, to the rural provinces of the Philippines or the colonias of San Salvador, children and youth are dying in increasing numbers due to gun violence. While some die in gang disputes, some in organised crime, and others in direct conflict with state security forces, increasing firearms-related mortality reflects the growing involvement of young people in organised armed groups that function outside of traditionally defined war zones.
Luke Dowdney’s second published work seeks to answer these and other questions. Neither War nor Peace investigates the commonalities and divergences of organised armed groups, and child and youth involvement within them, in ten countries across four continents.
The shocking reality presented here challenges the traditional parameters of definitions such as armed conflict, crime and delinquency; a reality that is for many young people who live it daily Neither War nor Peace.
The book is now available in English, Spanish and Portuguese editions. |
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| | | EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF FIGHT FOR PEACE | | | An external evaluation carried out by CLAVES (Latin American Centre for the Study of Violence and Health) on behalf of the following partners organisations:
UNDP (United Nations Development Programme);
PAHO (Pan American Health Organisation);
USP (University of Sao Paulo);
Brazilian Ministry for Health.
"On concluding this evaluation research and taking into account the numerous complexities of any social intervention such as that carried out by Fight for Peace, we can confirm that this is a very successful project within a locality of extremely high socio-environmental stress [this refers to the non-state armed actors openly patrolling the community]. The project's hypothesis, aims and activities join in an excellent synergy that lead them to reach proposed objectives and targets via their philosophy and practice." pg137
"...as shown during this study, the Fight for Peace project demonstrates efficiency, quality and effectiveness in primary prevention of violence and criminality." pg139
"...Among the many virtues that Fight for Peace has, we stress that, in our opinion, if taking into account the project's specific scope, it can be replicated in any Community or Neighbourhood where armed violence exists and obtain success." pg138 |
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